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SOCIETY 


OF   THE 


SONS   OF   THE  REVOLUTION 


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STATE   OF   CONNECTICUT 

1893-T913 


Issued  by  the  Society 

Hartford,  Conn. 

1913 


PUBLICATION  COMMITTEE 


FOR   THE  SOCIETY 


SONS   OF   THE   REVOLUTION 


STATE  OF  CONNECTICUT. 


HON.  EDWARD  HART  FENN,  Wethersfield, 
Secretary  of  the  Connecticut  Society. 

HON.  FRANCIS  HUBERT  PARKER,  Hartfo'rd, 
Registrar  of  the  Connecticut  Society. 

CHARLES  BARNEY  WHITTELSEY,  Hartford, 
Historian  of  the  Connecticut  Society. 


OFFICERS 

.  OF  THE 

SOCIETY 

OF  THK 

SONS   OF   THE   REVOLUTION 

IN  THE 

STATE  OF  CONNECTICUT, 

1913-1914. 

President. 
HON.  MORGAN  GARDNER  BULKELEY,  Hartford. 

Vice-President. 
HON.  DANIEL  NASH  MORGAN,  Bridgeport. 

Secretary. 
HON.  EDWARD  HART  FENN,  Wethersfield. 

Treasurer. 
WALTER  COLLYER  FAXON,  Hartford. 

Registrar. 
HON.  FRANCIS  HUBERT  PARKER,   Hartford. 

Chaplain. 
REV.  FREDERICK  R.  SANFORD.  Madison. 

Historian. 
CHARLES  BARNEY  WHITTELSEY,   Hartford. 


BOARD  OF  MANAGERS. 

1913-1914 

Eugene  Boardman,  East  Haddam, 
Charles  B.  Whittelsey,  Hartford, 
Louis  W.  Button,  Rocky  Hill, 
Walter  St.  George  Harris,  Hartford, 
Clarence  H.  Wickham,  Manchester, 
Harry  W.  Reynolds,  East  Haddam, 
Ralph  A.  Blydenburg,  Middletown, 
Isaac  W.  Birdseye,  Bridgeport, 
Clarence  B.  Warner,  East  Haddam. 


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poua  Btiall  bp  l|at»  ttt  ruprlaattng  rftttpmbranrr.  wt 
tl|ank  OIli??  fnr  tl|?  ittapirattott  ml|trl|  tniUli  into  ?x- 
wttntt  tl|p  i^ortptg  of  tl|f  BatiB  of  tl|?  ISfooluttott; 
anJi  tltp  blpBBing  ujl|irt|  I|a0  I|ttl|prto  attpttbri  it: 
Anh  m?  prag  ®t|?p  to  rontittu?  to  aiJi  our  ^orirtg 
in  ttjia  anb  surr^flJing  generations,  in  ttje  pious 
mork  of  perpetuating  tl|e  memory  of  tl|e  sarrifirea, 
anti  sufferings.  anlJ  ualor  of  our  fatl^ers.  tt|rougl| 
mt|iri|  our  prireless  I|eritage  mas  mon. 

Anii  ftnallg  ml|en  me  also  stiall  I|atie  Btxnth 
®I|ee  in  our  generation,  mag  me  be  gatl|ere!»  unto 
our  fatljers,  l|amng  tl|e  testimony  of  a  gooJi  ron- 
srienre ;  in  fanor  mitl|  ©l|ee  our  (Sah ;  unit  in  per- 
fea  rliaritg  mitl|  tl|e  morlb:  All  ml|irt|  me  ask 
tI)rougl)  3esus  (El|rist  our  iUorh.    Amen. 


THE  SOCIETY 

OF  THE 

SONS   OF   THE   REVOLUTION 

IN  THE 

STATE  OF  CONNECTICUT. 

Instituted  May  34,  1893.    Incorporated  September  7,  1893. 


CONSTITUTION. 

Preamble. 

Whereas,  it  has  become  evident  from  the  decline  of 
proper  celebration  of  such  National  holidays  as  the  Fourth 
of  July,  Washington's  Birthday,  and  the  like,  that  popular 
interest  in  the  events  and  men  of  the  War  of  the  Revolution 
is  less  than  in  the  earlier  days  of  the  Republic; 

And  Whereas,  this  lack  of  interest  is  to  be  attributed 
not  so  much  to  lapse  of  time  as  to  the  neglect  on  the  part 
of  descendants  of  Revolutionary  heroes  to  perform  their 
duty  of  keeping  before  the  public  mind  the  memory  of  the 
services  of  their  ancestors,  and  of  the  times  in  which  they 
lived,  and  of  the  principles  for  which  they  contended; 

Therefore,  the  Society  of  the  '*  Sons  of  the  Revolu- 
tion," has  been  instituted,  to  perpetuate  the  memory  of  the 
men  who,  in  military,  naval,  or  civil  service,  by  their  acts 
or  counsel,  achieved  American  Independence;  to  promote  and 
assist  in  the  proper  celebration  of  the  anniversaries  of 
Washington's  Birthday,  the  Battles  of  Lexington  and 
Bunker  Hill,  the  Fourth  of  July,  the  Capitulations  of  Sara- 
toga and  Yorktown,  the  formal  Evacuation  of  New  York 
by  the  British  Army,  on  the  3d  of  December,  1783,  as  a 
relinquishment  of  territorial  sovereignty,  and  other  promi- 

7 


8  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

nent  events  relating  to  or  connected  with  the  War  of  the 
Revolution;  to  collect  and  secure  for  preservation  the 
manuscript  rolls,  records,  and  other  documents  and  memorials 
relating  to  that  War;  to  inspire  among  the  members  and  their 
descendants  the  patriotic  spirit  of  their  forefathers;  to 
inculcate  in  the  community  general  sentiments  of  Nationality 
and  respect  for  the  principles  for  which  the  patriots  of  the 
Revolution  contended;  to  assist  in  the  commemorative  cele- 
bration of  other  great  historical  events  of  National  impor- 
tance, and  to  promote  social  intercourse  and  the  feeling  of 
fellowship  among  its  members. 

Article  I, 

Name  of  Society. 
The  Society  shall  be  known  by  the  name,  style  and  title 
of  "  Sons  of  the  Revolution." 

Article  II. 
Membership. 

Any  male  person,  above  the  age  of  twenty-one  years, 
shall  be  eligible  to  membership  in  the  "  Sons  of  the 
Revolution  "  who  is  descended  from  an  ancestor,  as  the 
propositus,  who  either  as  a  military,  naval,  or  marine  officer, 
soldier,  sailor,  or  marine,  or  official  in  the  service  of  any 
one  of  the  thirteen  original  Colonies  or  States,  or  of  the 
National  Government  representing  or  composed  of  those 
Colonies  or  States,  assisted  in  establishing  American  Inde- 
pendence during  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  between  the 
19th  day  of  April,  1775,  when  hostilities  commenced,  and 
the  19th  day  of  April,  1783,  when  they  were  ordered  to 
cease. 

Provided:  That  when  the  claim  of  eligibility  is  based 
on  the  service  of  an  ancestor  in  the  "  minute  men,"  or 
"  militia,"  it  must  be  satisfactorily  shown  that  such  ancestor 
was  actually  called  into  the  service  of  the  State  or  United 
States,  and  performed  garrison  or  field  duty;  and 

Provided  further:  That  when  the  claim  of  eligibility 
is  based  on  the  service  of  an  ancestor  as  a   "  sailor  "   or 


CONSTITUTION.  g 

*'  marine  "  it  must  in  like  manner  be  shown  that  such  serv- 
ice was  other  than  shore  duty  and  regularly  performed  in 
the  Continental  Navy,  or  the  Navy  of  one  of  the  original 
thirteen  States,  or  on  an  armed  vessel,  other  than  a  merchant 
ship  which  sailed  under  letters  of  marque  and  reprisal,  and 
that  such  ancestor  of  the  applicant  was  duly  enrolled  in 
the  ship's  company,  either  as  an  officer,  seaman,  or  other- 
wise than  as  a  passenger:  and 

Provided  further:  That  when  the  claim  of  eligibility 
is  based  on  the  service  of  an  ancestor  as  an  "  official  "  such 
service  must  have  been  performed  in  the  civil  service  of  the 
United  States,  or  of  one  of  the  thirteen  original  States, 
and  must  have  been  sufficiently  important  in  character  to 
have  rendered  the  official  specially  liable  to  arrest  and 
imprisonment,  the  same  as  a  combatant,  if  captured  by  the 
enemy,  as  well  as  liable  to  conviction  of  treason  against  the 
Government  of  Great  Britain. 

Service  in  the  ordinary  duties  of  a  civil  office,  the  per- 
formance of  which  did  not  parlicularly  and  effectively  aid 
the  American  Cause,  shall  not  constitute  eligibility. 

In  the  construction  of  this  article,  the  Volunteer  Aides 
de  Camp  of  General  Officers  in  Continental  Service,  who 
were  duly  announced  as  such,  and  who  actually  served  in 
the  field  during  a  campaign,  shall  be  comprehended  as  hav- 
ing performed  qualifying  service. 

The  civil  officials  and  military  forces  of  the  State  of 
Vermont,  during  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  shall  also  be 
comprehended  in  the  same  manner  as  if  they  had  belonged 
to  one  of  the  thirteen  original  States. 

No  service  of  an  ancestor  shall  be  deemed  as  qualify- 
ing service  for  membership  in  the  "  Sons  of  the  Revo- 
lution "  where  such  ancestor,  after  assisting  in  the  cause 
of  American  Independence,  shall  have  subsequently  either 
adhered  to  the  enemy,  or  failed  to  maintain  an  honorable 
record  throughout  the  War  of  the  Revolution. 

No  person  shall  be  admitted  unless  he  be  eligible  under 
one  of  the  provisions  of  this  Article,  nor  unless  he  be  of 


lO  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

good  moral  character  and  be  judged  worthy  of  becoming  a 
member. 

Article  III. 
Officers. 
The  officers  of  the  Society  of  the  "  Sons  of  the 
Revolution  "  shall  be  a  President,  a  Vice-President,  a 
Secretary,  a  Treasurer,  a  Registrar,  and  a  Chaplain,  who 
shall  be  chosen  by  ballot  at  every  annual  meeting  from 
among  the  members  thereof. 

Article  IV. 
Board  of  Managers. 
The  Board  of  Managers  of  the  Society  shall  be  fifteen, 
namely:  the  President,  the  Vice-President,  the  Secretary, 
the  Treasurer,  the  Registrar,  and  the  Chaplain,  ex  officio, 
and  nine  others  who  shall  be  chosen  by  ballot  at  every 
annual  meeting  from  among  the  members  of  the  Society. 

Article  V. 
Admission  of  Members. 

Every  application  for  membership  shall  be  made  in 
writing,  subscribed  by  the  applicant,  and  approved  by  two 
members  over  their  signatures.  Applications  shall  contain, 
or  be  accompanied  by,  proof  of  eligibility,  and  such  appli- 
cations and  proofs  shall  be  submitted  to  the  Board  of  Man- 
agers, who  shall  have  full  power  to  determine  the  qualifica- 
tions of  the  applicant. 

Payment  of  the  initiation  fee  and  subscription  to  the 
declaration  required  by  the  Constitution  of  this  Society  shall 
be  a  pre-requisite  of  membership. 

Article  VI. 

Declaration. 

Every  member  shall  declare  upon  honor  that  he  will 

endeavor  to  promote  the  purposes  of  this  Institution  and 

observe  the  "  Constitution  "  and  "  By-laws  "  of  this  Society, 

and,  if  he  be  a  citizen  of  the  United  States,  shall  declare 


CONSTITUTION.  II 

that  he  will  support  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States, 
Such  declaration  shall  be  in  writing,  and  subscribed  by  the 
member  making  it. 

Article  VII. 
Institution  Considered. 
At  every  meeting  the  purposes  of  the  Institution  will  be 
fully  considered  and  the  best  measures  to  promote  them 
adopted.  No  question,  however,  involving  the  party  poli- 
tics of  the  day  within  the  United  States  shall  ever  be  dis- 
cussed or  considered  in  any  meeting  of  the  "  Sons  of  the 
Revolution." 

Article  VIII. 
Commemorations. 
It  shall  be  a  standing  Regulation  that  the  members  shall, 
when   practicable,   hold  a   commemorative   celebration   and 
dine  together  at  least  once  every  year. 

Article  IX. 

Seal. 
The  seal  of  the  Society  of  the  "  Sons  of  the  Revo- 
lution "  shall  be  one  and  seven-eighths  of  an  inch  in 
diameter,  and  shall  consist  of  the  figure  of  a  "  Minute- 
man  "  in  Continental  uniform,  standing  on  a  ladder  leading 
to  a  belfry,  and  holding  in  his  left  hand  a  musket  and  an 
olive  branch,  and  grasping  in  his  right  hand  a  bell  rope. 
Above,  the  cracked  "Liberty  bell;"  issuing  therefrom  a 
ribbon,  bearing  the  motto  of  the  "  Sons  of  the  Revo- 
lution; "  "  Exegi  Monumentinn  JEre  Perennius."  Across 
the  top  of  the  ladder,  on  a  ribbon,  the  figures  "  1776," 
and  at  the  left  of  the  Minute-man,  and  also  on  a  ribbon, 
the  figures  "  1883,"  the  year  of  the  Centennial  commem- 
oration of  the  permanent  evacuation  by  the  British  army  of 
American  territory;  the  whole  encircled  by  a  band  three- 
eighths  of  an  inch  wide;  thereon  at  the  top  thirteen  stars 
of  five  points  each,  and  at  the  bottom  the  legend,   "  Sons 


12  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

OF  THE   Revolution;"  the   following  being  a   facsimile 
thereof: 


The  Secretary  shall  be  the  custodian  of  the  seal,  which 
shall  be  identical  in  every  particular  with  this  description. 

Article  X. 
Insignia. 

The  insignia  of  the  "  Sons  of  the  Revolution  "  shall 
consist  of  a  badge  pendant  from  the  ribbon  by  a  ring  of 
gold. 

The  badge  shall  be  elliptical  in  form,  with  escalloped 
edges,  one  and  one-quarter  inches  in  length  and  one  and 
one-eighth  inches  in  width;  the  whole  surmounted  by  a  gold 
eagle,  with  wings  displayed,  inverted.  On  the  obverse  side 
a  medallion  of  gold  in  the  center,  elliptical  in  form,  bear- 
ing on  its  face  the  figure  of  a  soldier  in  Continental  uniform, 
with  musket  slung.  Beneath,  the  figures  "1775;"  the 
medallion  surrounded  by  thirteen  raised  gold  stars  of  five 
points  each  upon  a  border  of  dark  blue  enamel. 

On  the  reverse  side,  in  the  center,  a  medallion,  corre- 
sponding in  form  to  that  on  the  obverse,  and  also  in  gold, 
bearing  on  its  face  Houdon's  portrait  of  Washington  in 
has  relief,  encircled  by  the  legend,   "  Sons  of  the  Revo- 


CONSTITUTION.  13 

LUTION."  Beneath,  the  figures  "  1883,"  and  upon  the 
reverse  of  the  eagle,  the  number  of  the  particular  badge 
engraved;  the  medallion  surrounded  by  a  plain  gold  border 
conforming  in  dimensions  to  the  obverse,  upon  which  mem- 
bers may  have  their  names  engraved  in  script. 

The  ribbon  shall  be  dark  blue,  ribbed  and  watered,  edged 
with  buff,  one  and  one-half  inches  wide  and  one  and  one-half 
inches  in  displayed  length. 

The  insignia  shall  be  worn  by  the  members  conspicuously 
and  only  on  the  left  breast  on  all  occasions  when  they  shall 
assemble  as  such  for  any  stated  purpose  or  celebration. 
The  badge  shall  never  be  worn  as  an  article  of  jewelry. 

The  Treasurer  of  the  Society  shall  procure  and  issue 
the  insignia  to  the  members  and  shall  keep  a  record  of  all 
issued  by  him.  , 

Such  insignia  shall  be  returned  to  the  Treasurer  of  the 
Society  by  any  member  who  may  formally  withdraw  or 
resign  or  be  expelled,  but  otherwise  it  shall  be  deemed  an 
heirloom. 

No  member  shall  receive  more  than  one  badge,  unless 
to  replace  one,  the  loss  or  destruction  of  which  shall  first 
be  satisfactorily  established. 

On  occasions  other  than  the  meetings  for  any  stated  pur- 
pose or  celebration,  members  may  wear  a  rosette  of  the 
prescribed  ribbon  and  pattern  in  the  upper  buttonhole  of 
the  left  lapel  of  the  coat. 

The  Treasurer  shall  procure  and  issue  the  rosettes  to 
members. 

Article  XL 
Alterations  and  Amendments. 
No  alteration  nor  amendment  of  the  Constitution  of 
this  Society  shall  be  made  unless  notice  thereof  shall  be  duly 
given  in  writing,  signed  by  the  member  proposing  the  same, 
at  a  meeting  of  the  Society,  nor  unless  the  same  shall  be 
adopted  at  a  subsequent  meeting,  held  at  least  thirty  days 
after  such  notice,  by  a  vote  of  three-fourths  of  the  mem- 
bers present. 


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SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 


BY-LAWS. 

Section  I. 
Initiation  Fee,  Dues,  and  Contributions. 

The  initiation  fee  shall  be  two  dollars;  the  annual  dues, 
three  dollars,  which  shall  be  payable  on  or  before  the  first 
day  of  January  in  every  year.  The  initiation  fees  and  dues 
must  accompany  every  application  for  membership.  The 
payment  at  one  time  of  forty  dollars  shall  henceforth  exempt 
the  member  so  paying  from  the  payment  of  annual  dues. 

Any  member  who  may  contribute  one  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars  to  the  "  Permanent  Fund  "  of  the  Society  shall  be 
exempt  from  the  payment  of  annual  dues,  and  this  exemption 
shall  extend  in  perpetuity  to  his  lineal  successors  in  member- 
ship from  the  same  propositus,  one  at  a  time,  who  may  be 
selected  for  such  exemption  by  the  Society. 

Section  II. 
Permanent  Fund. 
There  shall  be  a  "  Permanent  Fund,"  to  be  derived  from 
contributions,  and  to  remain  forever  to  the  use  of  the  Society, 
the  income  only  of  which  shall  be  expended. 

Section  III. 
President. 
The  President,  or  in  his  absence  the  Vice-President,  or 
in  his  absence  a  chairman  pro  tempore,  shall  preside  at  all 
meetings  of  the  Society  and  of  the  Board  of  Managers,  and 
shall  exercise  the  usual  functions  of  a  presiding  officer,  under 
general  parliamentary  rules,  subject  to  an  appeal  to  the 
Society  in  proper  cases  under  those  rules.  The  President 
shall  be,  ex  officio,  a  member  of  all  committees  other  than 


BY-LAWS.  15 

the  Committee  on  Nominations.  He  shall  have  power  to 
convene  the  Board  of  Managers  and  appoint  the  place  of 
such  meeting  when  called  by  him. 

He  shall  also  perform  such  other  representative  duties 
on  behalf  of  the  Society,  either  personally  or  by  corre- 
spondence, as  it  or  the  Board  of  Managers  may  find  desir- 
able or  necessary,  or  as  customarily  appertain  to  his  office, 
and  he  shall  enforce  a  strict  observance  of  the  Constitution 
and  By-laws  of  the  Society. 

In  case  of  his  decease,  resignation,  neglect  to  serve,  or 
inability  from  any  cause  to  act  as  President,  the  duties  of 
the  office  shall  devolve  on  the  Vice-President  until  the 
vacancy  caused  by  such  decease,  resignation,  or  neglect  to 
serve  shall  be  filled,  or  until  the  inability  shall  cease. 

Section  IV. 
Secretary. 
The  Secretary  shall  conduct  the  general  correspondence 
of  the  Society  and  keep  a  record  thereof.  He  shall  notify 
all  qualified  and  accepted  candidates  of  their  admission,  and 
perform  such  other  duties  as  the  Society  or  Board  of  Man- 
agers or  his  office  may  require  of  him.  He  shall  have 
charge  of  the  seal,  certificates  of  incorporation,  by-laws, 
historical  and  other  documents  and  records  of  the  Society 
other  than  those  required  to  be  deposited  with  the  Registrar, 
and  shall  affix  the  seal  to  all  properly  authenticated  cer- 
tificates of  membership  and  transmit  the  same  without  delay 
to  the  member  for  whom  it  shall  be  issued  or  to  his  proper 
representative.  He  shall  also  notify  the  Registrar  of  all 
admissions  to  membership,  and  transmit  to  him  the  applica- 
tions and  proofs  of  eligibility  of  all  persons  so  admitted. 
He,  together  with  the  presiding  officer,  shall,  when  nec- 
essary, certify  all  acts  of  the  Society,  and,  in  proper  cases, 
authenticate  them  under  seal.  He  shall  have  charge  of  all 
printing  and  publications  directed  by  the  Society  or  by  the 
Board  of  Managers.  He  shall  give  due  notice  of  the  time 
and  place  of  all  meetings  of  the  Society  and  of  the  Board 
of  Managers,  and  shall  attend  the  same.     He  shall  keep  fair 


l6  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

and  accurate  records  of  all  the  proceedings  and  orders  of  the 
Society  and  the  Board  of  Managers,  and  shall  give  notice 
to  the  several  officers  of  all  votes,  orders,  resolves,  and  pro- 
ceedings of  the  Society  or  of  the  Board  of  Managers, 
affecting  them  or  appertaining  to  their  respective  duties;  and 
at  the  annual  meeting,  and  oftener  if  required,  shall  report 
to  the  Society  the  names  of  those  candidates  who  have  been 
admitted  to  membership,  and  also  the  names  of  those  mem- 
bers whose  resignations  or  voluntary  withdrawals  have  been 
consented  to  and  accepted,  and  also  the  names  of  those  mem- 
bers who  have  been  expelled  or  dropped  for  non-payment  of 
dues  or  for  failure  to  substantiate  claim  of  descent.  In  his 
absence  from  any  meeting,  a  Secretary  pro  tempore  may  be 
designated  therefor,  unless  the  Assistant  Secretary  shall  be 
present  to  act  in  such  capacity. 

Section  V. 
Treasurer. 

The  Treasurer  shall  collect  and  keep  the  funds  and 
securities  of  the  Society;  and  as  often  as  those  funds  shall 
amount  to  one  hundred  dollars  they  shall  be  deposited  in 
some  bank,  which  shall  be  designated  by  the  Board  of  Man- 
agers, to  the  credit  of  the  Society  of  the  "  Sons  of  the 
Revolution,"  and  such  funds  shall  be  drawn  thence  on  the 
check  of  the  Treasurer  for  the  purposes  of  the  Society  only. 
Out  of  these  funds  he  shall  pay  such  sums  only  as  may  be 
ordered  by  the  Society  or  by  the  Board  of  Managers,  and 
shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  the  Society  or  Board  of 
Managers  or  his  office  may  require  of  him.  He  shall  keep 
a  true  account  of  his  receipts  and  payments,  and,  at  each 
annual  meeting,  render  the  same  to  the  Society  with  a  full 
statement  of  the  financial  condition  of  the  Society,  when  a 
committee  shall  be  appointed  to  audit  his  accounts. 

For  the  faithful  performance  of  his  duty  he  shall  give 
such  security  as  the  Society,  or  Board  of  Managers  in  lieu 
of  its  action  thereon,  may  from  time  to  time  require. 


BY-LAWS.  17 

Section  VI. 
Registrar. 
The  Registrar  shall  receive  from  the  Secretary,  file  and 
keep  on  record,  all  the  proofs  upon  which  memberships  have 
been  granted,  declarations  of  members  on  admission  of  ad- 
herence to  the  Constitution  and  By-laws  of  the  Society, 
together  with  a  list  of  all  diplomas  countersigned  by  him, 
and  all  documents,  rolls,  or  other  evidences  of  service  in  the 
War  of  the  Revolution  of  which  the  Society  may  become 
possessed;  and  he,  under  the  direction  of  the  Board  of 
Managers,  shall  make  or  cause  to  be  made  for  file  in  his 
office,  copies  of  such  original  or  certified  documents  as  the 
owners  thereof  may  not  be  willing  to  leave  permanently  in 
the  keeping  of  the  Society, 

Section  VII. 
Chaplain. 
The  Chaplain  shall  be  a  regularly  ordained  minister  of 
a  Christian  denomination,  and  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  open 
and  close  all  meetings  with  customary  chaplaincy  services  and 
perform  such  other  duties  as  ordinarily  appertain  to  such 
office. 

Section  VIII. 
Historian. 

The  Board  of  Managers  shall  have  power  to  appoint  a 
Historian,  who  shall  keep  a  detailed  record,  to  be  deposited 
with  the  Secretary,  of  all  the  historical  and  commemorative 
celebrations  of  the  Society;  and  he  shall  edit  and  prepare  for 
publication  such  historical  addresses,  essays,  papers,  and 
other  documents  of  a  historical  character,  other  than  a 
Registrar  of  Members,  as  the  Secretary  may  be  required  to 
publish;  and  at  every  annual  meeting,  if  there  shall  be  a 
necrological  list  for  the  year  then  closing,  he  shall  submit 
the  same,  with  carefully  prepared  biographies  of  the  de- 
ceased members. 


1 8  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

Section  IX. 
Assistant  Secretary. 

The  Board  of  Managers  shall  have  power  to  appoint  an 
Assistant  Secretary,  who  shall  assist  the  Secretary  in  the  per- 
formance of  such  duties  of  that  office  as  the  latter  may  from 
time  to  time  devolve  upon  him,  and  may,  in  such  cases,  give 
required  notices  and  certify  and  authenticate,  when  necessary, 
any  acts,  documents,  or  records  of  the  Society. 

In  case  of  the  absence  of  the  Secretary  from  any  meeting 
of  the  Society  or  of  the  Board  of  Managers,  or  of  his 
decease,  resignation,  neglect  to  serve,  or  inability  from  any 
cause  to  act  in  that  capacity,  the  duties  of  the  office  shall 
devolve  on  the  Assistant  Secretary  until  the  Secretary  shall 
return,  or  until  the  vacancy  caused  by  such  decease,  resig- 
nation, or  neglect  to  serve  shall  be  filled,  or  until  the  inability 
shall  cease. 

Section  X. 
Board  of  Managers. 

The  Board  of  Managers  shall  judge  of  the  qualifications 
of  every  candidate  who  shall  make  proper  application  for 
admission  to  the  Society,  and  shall  have  power  to  admit  him 
to  membership  therein,  if  found  eligible  under  the  Constitu- 
tion of  this  Society.  Three  negative  votes  shall  be  a  rejec- 
tion of  the  applicant. 

They  may,  through  the  Secretary,  call  special  meetings 
of  the  Society  at  such  times  as  they  may  see  fit,  and  they  may 
arrange  for  commemorative  celebrations  by  the  Society. 

They  shall  recommend  plans  to  the  Society  for  promot- 
ing its  purposes,  and,  when  practicable,  may  digest  and  pre- 
pare business  for  its  meetings,  and  shall  supervise  all 
publications  issued  in  its  name,  and  decide  whether  copies  of 
records  or  other  documents  or  papers  may  be  furnished  on 
request  of  any  party  in  cases  not  pertaining  directly  to  the 
business  of  the  Society  and  the  proper  conduct  of  its  affairs. 

They  shall  generally  superintend  the  interests  and  shall 
have  the  control  and  management  of  the  affairs  and  funds  of 
the  Society.     They  shall  also  perform  such  duties  as  may  be 


BY-LAWS. 


19 


prescribed  by  the  Constitution  and  By-laws,  or  required  by 
any  Standing  Rule  or  Resolve  of  the  Society;  provided, 
however,  that  they  shall  at  no  time  be  required  to  take  any 
action  nor  contract  any  debt  for  which  they  shall  be  jointly 
or  severally  liable.  They  shall  be  competent  to  consent  to 
and  to  accept  the  resignation  or  voluntary  withdrawal  from 
membership  of  any  enrolled  member  of  the  Society, 

They  may  require  the  attendance  of  any  member  of  the 
Society,  or  any  official  or  committee  thereof,  at  any  meeting, 
for  consultation  and  advice. 

The  Board  of  Managers  shall  meet  as  often  as  they  may 
desire,  or  at  the  call  of  the  President,  or  upon  the  written 
request  of  any  three  members  of  the  same  addressed  to  the 
Secretary. 

A  majority  of  the  Board  of  Managers  shall  be  a  quorum 
for  the  transaction  of  business. 

At  every  annual  meeting  they  shall  submit  to  the  Society 
a  general  report  of  their  proceedings  during  the  year  then 
closing,  and  at  such  other  time  as  may  be  required  by  the 
Society. 

Section  XI. 
Expulsion  and  Suspension. 

The  Board  of  Managers  shall  have  power  to  expel  any 
enrolled  member  of  this  Society  who,  by  a  conduct  incon- 
sistent with  a  gentleman  and  a  man  of  honor,  or  by  an 
opposition  to  the  interests  of  the  community  in  general  or 
of  this  Society  in  particular,  may  render  himself  unworthy  to 
continue  a  member,  or  who  shall  persistently  transgress,  or, 
without  good  excuse,  willfully  neglect  or  fail  in  the  per- 
formance of  any  obligation  enjoined  by  the  Constitution  or 
By-laws  or  any  Standing  Rule  of  this  Society.  Provided, 
that  such  member  shall  have  received  at  least  ten  days'  notice 
of  the  complaint  preferred  against  him,  and  of  the  time  and 
place  for  hearing  the  same,  and  have  been  thereby  afforded 
an  opportunity  to  be  heard  in  person. 

Whenever  the  cause  of  expulsion  shall  not  have  involved 
turpitude  nor  moral  unworthiness,  any  member  thus  expelled 


20  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

may,  upon  the  unanimous  recommendation  of  the  Board  of 
Managers,  but  not  otherwise,  be  restored  to  membership  by 
the  Society  at  any  meeting. 

The  Board  of  Managers  shall  also  have  power  to  drop 
from  the  Roll  the  name  of  any  enrolled  member  of  the 
Society  who  shall  be  at  least  two  years  in  arrears  in  the  pay- 
ment of  dues,  and  who,  on  notice  to  pay  the  same,  shall  fail 
and  neglect  to  do  so  within  ten  days  thereafter,  and  upon 
being  thus  dropped,  his  membership  shall  cease  and  deter- 
mine, but  he  may  be  restored  to  membership  at  any  time  by 
the  Board  of  Managers  on  his  application  therefor,  and 
upon  his  payment  of  all  such  arrears  and  of  the  annual  dues 
from  the  date  when  he  was  dropped  to  the  date  of  his 
restoration.  The  Board  of  Managers  may  also  suspend  any 
officer  from  the  performance  of  his  duties,  for  cause;  which 
proceeding  must  be  reported  to  the  Society  and  acted  upon  by 
it  within  thirty  days,  either  by  rescission  of  the  suspension  or 
removal  of  the  suspended  officer  from  office,  or  otherwise 
the  suspension  shall  cease. 

Section  XII. 
Vacancies  and  Terms  of  Ojilice. 

Whenever  an  officer  of  this  Society  shall  die,  resign,  or 
neglect  to  serve,  or  be  suspended,  or  be  unable  to  properly 
perform  the  duties  of  his  office,  by  reason  of  absence,  sick- 
ness, or  other  cause,  and  whenever  an  office  shall  be  vacant, 
which  the  Society  shall  not  have  filled  by  an  election,  the 
Board  of  Managers  shall  have  power  to  appoint  a  member 
to  such  office  pro  tempore,  who  shall  act  in  such  capacity  until 
the  Society  shall  elect  a  member  to  the  vacant  office,  or  until 
the  inability  due  to  "  suspension,  absence,  sickness,  or  other 
cause  "  shall  cease.  Provided,  however,  that  the  office  of 
President  or  Secretary  shall  not  thus  be  filled  by  the  Board 
of  Managers  when  there  shall  be  a  Vice-President  or  Assist- 
ant Secretary  to  enter  upon  the  duties  of  those  offices 
respectively. 

In  like  manner,  the  Board  of  Managers  may  supply 
vacancies  among  its  members,  under  the  same  conditions  and 


BY-LAIVS.  21 

limitations;  and  in  case  any  member  thereof,  other  than  an 
officer,  shall  be  absent  from  three  consecutive  meetings  of  the 
same,  his  place  therein  may  be  declared  vacant  by  the  Board 
of  Managers  and  filled  by  an  appointment  which  shall  con- 
tinue in  full  effect  until  the  Society  shall  elect  a  successor. 

Subject  to  these  provisions,  all  officers  of  the  Society,  and 
the  members  of  the  Board  of  Managers,  shall,  from  the 
time  of  their  election  or  appointment,  continue  in  their  re- 
spective offices  until  the  next  annual  meeting,  and  until  their 
respective  successors  shall  be  duly  chosen. 

Section  XIII. 
Resignation. 
No  resignation  or  voluntary  withdrawal  from  member- 
ship of  any  member  enrolled  in  this  Society  shall  become 
effective  as  a  release  from  the  obligations  thereof  unless  con- 
sented to  and  accepted  by  the  Board  of  Managers. 

Section  XIV. 
Disqualification. 

No  person  who  may  be  enrolled  as  a  member  in  this 
Society  shall  be  permitted  to  continue  in  membership  where 
the  proofs  of  claim  of  qualification  by  descent  shall  be  found 
to  be  defective  and  insufficient  to  substantiate  such  claim,  or 
not  properly  authenticated.  The  Society,  or  the  Board  of 
Managers,  may,  at  any  time  after  thirty  days'  notice  to  such 
person  to  properly  substantiate  or  authenticate  his  claim, 
require  the  Secretary  to  erase  his  name  from  the  list  of  mem- 
bers, and  such  person  shall  thereupon  cease  to  be  a  member: 
Provided,  he  shall  have  failed  or  neglected  to  comply  satis- 
factorily with  such  notice. 

Where  the  Board  of  Managers  shall  direct  the  erasure 
of  a  person's  name  for  a  cause  comprehended  under  this 
section,  such  person  shall  have  a  right  of  appeal  to  the  next 
annual  meeting  of  the  Society;  but  he  shall  not  be  restored 
to  membership  unless  by  a  vote  of  three-fourths  of  the  mem- 
bers present  on  that  occasion,  or  at  a  subsequent  meeting  to 


22  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

which  the  consideration  of  the  appeal  may  have  been  spe- 
cifically postponed. 

Section  XV. 
Annual  and  Special  Meetings. 

The  Society  shall  hold  an  annual  meeting  at  the  head- 
quarters of  the  Society  in  the  Nathan  Hale  School  House 
in  the  town  of  East  Haddam  in  the  month  of  June,  1901, 
and  each  year  thereafter  at  the  call  of  the  Board  of  Man- 
agers, at  which  a  general  election  of  officers  and  managers 
by  ballot  shall  take  place. 

In  such  election  the  polls  shall  be  open  one  and  one-half 
hours,  and  a  majority  of  the  ballots  given  for  any  office  or 
for  a  manager  shall  constitute  a  choice  therefor;  but,  if 
on  the  first  ballot  no  member  shall  receive  such  a  majority, 
then  a  further  balloting,  in  such  case,  shall  forthwith  take 
place,  in  which  a  plurality  of  votes  given  shall  determine  the 
choice  therefor.  During  any  election  the  regular  Order  of 
Business  may  be  proceeded  with. 

Special  meetings  shall  be  held  by  direction  of  the  Board 
of  Managers,  or  upon  the  written  request  of  thirty  members 
of  the  Society,  at  such  time  and  place  as  said  Board  may 
direct.  At  such  special  meeting  no  business  shall  be  trans- 
acted except  such  as  shall  be  specified  in  the  notice  therefor. 

One  week's  notice  of  time  and  place  of  annual  or  special 
meetings  shall  be  given  by  mailing  through  the  post-office 
in  said  city  a  written  or  printed  notice  to  every  member  of 
the  Society. 

At  all  meetings  of  the  Society  the  members  present  shall 
constitute  a  quorum  for  the  transaction  of  business. 

The  meetings  of  the  Society  for  business  shall  be  gen- 
erally conducted  according  to  parliamentary  law  and  the 
following  Order  of  Business  shall,  as  far  as  the  same  may 
be  applicable,  be  followed: 

Order  of  Business. 

1 .  Meeting  called  to  order  by  Presiding  Officer. 

2.  Prayer  by  the  Chaplain. 


BY-LAWS. 


23 


3.  Reading   of   minutes   of   prior   meetings   not   pre- 
viously acted  upon. 

4.  Election  of  officers  and  managers,  when  necessary. 

5.  Communications    from    or    Report    of    Board    of 
Managers. 

6.  Reports  of  Officers. 

7.  Reports  of  Special  Committees. 

8.  Unfinished  business. 

9.  Written   communications   requiring   action   of   the 
Society. 

10.  Specially  noticed  business. 

11.  Notices  of  motion  for  subsequent  meeting, 

12.  Miscellaneous  business. 

13.  Reading  of  the  Preamble  to  this  Constitution. 

14.  Closing  Prayer  by  the  Chaplain. 

Section  XVI. 
Service  of  Notices. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  member  to  inform  the 
Secretary,  by  written  communication,  of  his  place  of 
residence  and  of  any  change  thereof,  and  of  his  post-office 
address. 

Service  of  any  notice  under  this  Constitution  or  By-laws 
upon  any  member  of  the  Society,  addressed  to  him  at  his  last 
recorded  place  of  residence  or  post-office  address,  and  for- 
warded by  mail,  shall  be  deemed  sufficient  service  of  such 
notice. 

Section  XVII. 
Recommendation  of  Candidates. 
No  member  shall  approve  an  application  for  member- 
ship in  this  Society  unless  he  shall  knozu  the  candidate  to 
be  worthy,  and  shall  have  satisfied  himself  by  due  examina- 
tion of  proofs  that  such  candidate  is  eligible,  and  will,  if 
admitted,  be  a  desirable  member. 


24  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

Section  XVIII. 
Nominating  Committee. 

l^he  Society  may,  at  the  annual  meeting,  choose  a  Nomi- 
nating Committee,  of  nine  members,  to  nominate  officers  and 
members  of  the  Board  of  Managers,  for  election  at  the  suc- 
ceeding annual  meeting. 

In  case  the  Society  shall  not  choose  such  a  committee,  the 
President  shall,  prior  to  every  annual  meeting,  appoint  such  a 
Nominating  Committee  of  nine  members  from  among  the 
members  longest  enrolled  as  such,  who  may  consent  to  serve 
on  such  Committee,  exclusive  of  officers  or  members  of  the 
Board  of  Managers. 

The  Nominating  Committee  shall  select  and  nominate  a 
ticket  of  the  names  proposed  to  fill  the  respective  offices,  to 
be  elected  by  ballot,  which  ticket  shall  be  printed  and  distrib- 
uted as  the  "  Regular  Ticket "  at  the  ensuing  annual 
election. 

In  order  to  secure  as  far  as  may  be  in  the  Board  of 
Managers  stability  in  procedure  and  familiarity  with  pre- 
cedents in  the  business  affairs  of  the  Society,  every  Nominat- 
ing Committee  shall,  in  making  nominations  for  the  suffrages 
of  the  Society  of  members  of  said  Board  other  than  those 
who  are  ex  officio  members,  so  arrange  their  recommend- 
ations as  to  provide  for  the  retirement  annually  of  not  less 
than  three  nor  more  than  four  of  those  who  shall  have 
served  longest  continuously  on  said  Board,  and  for  the  con- 
tinuance of  a  proportionate  number. 

Section  XIX. 
Decease  of  Members. 

Upon  the  decease  of  any  member,  notice  thereof,  and  of 
the  time  and  place  of  the  funeral,  shall  be  given  by  the  Sec- 
retary by  publication,  and  it  shall  thereupon  become  the  duty 
of  the  members,  when  practicable,  to  attend  the  obsequies. 

Any  member,  upon  being  informed  of  the  decease  of  a 
member,  shall  make  it  his  business  to  see  that  the  Secretary 
is  promptly  notified  of  the  fact,  which  fact  shall  also,  in  due 
time,  be  communicated  to  the  Society. 


BY-LAWS.  25 

Section  XX. 
Certificate  of  Membership. 
Every  member  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  a  certificate  of 
membership,  which  shall  be  authenticated  by  the  President 
and  Secretary,  and  countersigned  by  the  Registrar  of  the 
Society,  and  to  which  the  seal  of  the  "  Sons  OF  THE 
Revolution  "  shall  be  affixed.  The  certificate  shall  be  in 
form  following: 

"  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION." 

Be  it  known  that has  been  duly 

admitted    a    member    of    this    Institution    in    right    of    the 

services  of in  the  cause  of  American 

Independence  during  the  War  of  the  Revolution. 

Dated  at  the  city  of ,  this day  of 

,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord thousand 

hundred  and ,  and  of  the  In- 
dependence of  the  United  States  of  America  the 


L.   s. 


President  of  the  Society. 
Secretary  of  the  Society. 


Registrar. 

Section  XXI. 
Marshal. 
The  President  of  the  Society  may,  from  time  to  time, 
in  his  discretion,  designate  a  member  to  act,  under  his  direc- 
tion, as  Marshal  for  the  Society  in  its  commemorative  cele* 
brations,  parades,  and  other  meetings,  and  to  perform  such 
duties  as  usually  appertain  to  such  a  position. 


26  sons  of  the  revolution. 

Section  XXII. 
Alterations  or  Amendments. 
No  alteration  nor  amendment  of  the  By-laws  of  this 
Society  shall  be  made  unless  notice  thereof  shall  be  duly 
given  in  writing,  signed  by  the  member  proposing  the  same, 
at  a  meeting  of  the  Society,  nor  unless  the  same  shall  be 
adopted  at  a  subsequent  meeting,  held  at  least  thirty  days 
after  such  notice,  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  the  members 
present. 


INSIGNIA. 


27 


INSIGNIA. 


Authority  has  been  given  by  Congress  to  the  officers  and 
men  of  the  army  and  navy  to  wear  the  Insignia  of  the 
Societies  of  the  Revolution  and  other  military  societies,  and 
thus  has  given  recognition  to  the  following:  "Society  of 
the  Cincinnati,"  "  Sons  of  the  Revolution,"  "  Society  of  the 
War  of  18 1 2,"  "Axtec  Society,"  "Loyal  Legion,"  and 
"  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic." 

The  joint  resolution  of  Congress  is  as  follows: 

I.  Joint  Resolution  granting  permission  to  officers  and 
enlisted  men  of  the  Army  and  Navy  of  the  United  States  to 
wear  badges  adopted  by  Military  Societies  of  the  Men  who 
served  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  War  of  18 12,  the 
Mexican  War,  and  the  War  of  the  Rebellion. 

Resolved  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of 
the  United  States  of  America,  in  Congress  assembled: 

That  the  distinctive  badges  adopted  by  Military  Societies 
of  Men  who  served  in  the  armies  and  navies  of  the  United 
States,  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  the  War  of  18 12,  the 
Mexican  War,  and  the  War  of  the  Rebellion,  respectively, 
may  be  worn  upon  all  occasions  of  ceremony  by  officers  and 
enlisted  men  of  the  Army  and  Navy  of  the  United  States, 
who  are  members  of  said  organizations  in  their  own  right. 

Approved  September  25,   1890. 


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ROSTER 


ANCESTORS  AND  DESCENDANTS. 


ALLEN,  MOSES,  Private.      1746-1826. 

Private  Fifth  Regiment  Connecticut  Line  July  i  to  December 
16,  1780. 

("  Record  of  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page 
203.) 

171  Allen,  Normand  Francis,  Hartford,  Conn. 

AVERY,  NATHAN.      1744-1832.     Groton,  Conn. 

Corporal  in  Captain  Ralph  Stoddard's  Company,  Colonel  Oliver 
Smith's  Eighth  Regiment  of  Militia  for  six  months  from 
September,  1776;  served  in  Captain  John  Morgan's  Company, 
Colonel  Oliver  Smith's  Eighth  Regiment  of  Militia,    178 1. 

(Certificate  of  Commissioner  of  Pensions;  Revolutionary 
Rolls  and  Lists,  Connecticut  Hist.  Coll,  Volume  8,  p.  216.) 

124  Parker,  Francis  Hubert,  Hartford,  Conn. 

BALDWIN,  HENRY. .     Cornwall,  Conn. 

Private  Sixth  Company,  Captain  Edward  Shipman,  Seventh  Con- 
necticut Continental  Regiment,  Colonel  Charles  Webb,  July 
II,  December  18,    1775. 

("Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  82.) 

38  HoTCHKiss,     Frank     Howard,     Thomaston,     Conn. 
Died  September  6,  1908. 

BALDWIN,  NATHAN,  Lieutenant.      1755-1805. 

Appointed  Lieutenant  with  the  command  of  the  Fort  at  Milford, 
and  also  empowered  to  cruise  in  the  Sound  with  the  boat  be- 
longing to  the   fort,    1782. 


40  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  631.) 
24  Baldwin,  Wilson  Leslie,  Stamford,  Conn, 

BARLOW,  AARON,  Ensign.     1750-1800. 

Private  Tenth  Company,  Captain  Zalmon  Read,  Fifth  Con- 
necticut Continental  Regiment,  Colonel  David  Waterbury; 
discharged  November  28,  1775;  Ensign  Captain  John  Gray's 
Company,  Colonel  Samuel  Whiting's  Regiment  Connecticut 
Militia;  October  5-October  19,  1777. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  71,  516.) 

52  Barlow,  Samuel  J.,  Waterbury,  Conn.     Died  Novem- 
ber 28,  1899. 

BECKWITH,  JASON.     1764-1821.    New  London,  Conn. 

Enlisted  April  23,  1781,  Captain  Charles  Miel's  Company, 
General  Waterbury's  State  Brigade. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  571.) 
172  Walter  St.  George   Harris,   Hartford,  Conn. 

BELL,  THADDEUS,  Sergeant.      1759-1851. 

Private  Captain  Gregory's  Company,  Colonel  Sellman's  Regi- 
ment, March-April,  1776;  private  Eleventh  Company,  Cap- 
tain Jonathan  Bell,  Ninth  Regiment  Connecticut  Militia, 
Lieutenant-Colonel  John  Mead  commanding,  in  the  service 
at  New  York,  August  13-September  11,  1776;  private  in  same 
company  in  service  on  the  Westchester  border  October  24- 
December  24,  1776;  private  same  company.  Captain  Eli  Reed, 
in  service  on  the  Westchester  border  December  27,  1776- 
January  8,  1777;  private  same  company  in  service  January- 
March,  1777;  private  First  Company,  Captain  Jesse  Bell, 
same  regiment,  Colonel  John  Mead,  March-September,  1777; 
engaged  at  Ridgefield  April  27,  and  at  Compo  April  28,  1777; 
Sergeant  Eleventh  Company,  Captain  Eli  Reed,  same  regi- 
ment, in  service  March- June,  1778,  and  July,  1779,  January, 
1780;  engaged  at  Fairfield  July  8,  and  at  Norwalk  July  12, 
1779;  Sergeant  same  company,  Captain  Nathaniel  Slason,  in 
service  April-June,  1780,  and  June-July,  1781  ;  taken  prisoner 
with  the  congregation  of  the  Church  at  Middlesex  July  22, 


ROSTER  OF  ANCESTORS  AND  DESCENDANTS.  41 

1781;  released  December,  1781  ;  Sergeant,  Captain  Jesse 
Bell's  company,  same  regiment,  Colonel  Steven  St.  John, 
April-October,  1782. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  456,  487, 
488,  650,  662.  His  application  for  the  pension  which  he 
received ;  statement  Wm.  Lochren,  Commissioner  of  Pensions, 
on  file.) 

25  Bell,  Clarence  Winthrop^  Darien,  Conn. 
BIGELOW,  ASA.     1755-1830. 

Private,  April,  1775,  Lexington  Alarm,  lo  days'  service.  As- 
sistant Commissary  to  Colonel  Champion,  the  Commissary- 
General  ;  he  went  several  times  into  New  Jersey,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  Virginia;  enlisted  August  3,  1778,  Captain  Na- 
thaniel Pomeroy's  Company,  Colonel  Samuel  Champion's 
Regiment;  was  discharged  September  18,  1778.  They  en- 
gaged in  the  attempt  to  dislodge  the  British  at  Newport  and 
were  present  at  the  battle  of  Rhode  Island,  August  29,  1778. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  531.) 
134  BiGELOw,  Henry  Waite^  Allston,  Mass. 

BILLINGS,  PELEG.      1738-1779.     Preston,  Conn. 

Marched  from  Preston  for  the  relief  of  Boston,  1775;  enlisted 
on  first  call  for  troops,  April,  1775  in  the  Seventh  Company 
Sixth  Regiment,  and  served  in  Northern  Department  under 
General  Schuyler  from  May  6  to  December  12;  private  in 
Captain  Caulkins'  Company,  Colonel  Lattimer's  Regiment. 
General  Poor's  Brigade,  Arnold's  Division,  August  24  to 
October  30,  1777,  and  was  engaged  in  battles  September  19 
and  October  9,  1777,  at  Saratoga;  enlisted  May  20,  1778, 
Third  Regiment  Connecticut  Line  and  was  discharged  Januu- 
ary  i,  1779,  and  died  before  reaching  home. 

("Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  76,  171, 
505.) 

194  Reynolds,  Harry  Wilson,  East  Haddam,  Conn. 
166  Reynolds,  V/'" 'JON  C,  East  Haddam,  Conn. 


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SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 


BIRDSEYE,  JOSEPH.     1740-1817. 

Captain  Colonel  Whiting's  Regiment,  4th  Militia,  commanded 
by  Lieutenant-Colonel  Jonathan  Dimon,  October,  1777;  en- 
listed October  5,  discharged  October  31;  was  Captain  in 
Colonel  Whiting's  Regiment  at  New  Haven  and  Fairfield, 
Conn.,  in  July,  1779,  during  Tryon's  Invasion  of  Connecticut. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  515,  518, 
548,    550.     "  Orcutt's    History    of    Stratford,"    pages    381, 
1 107.) 
98  BiRDSEYE,  Isaac  Washington,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

BRADLEY,  LEVI.     1758-1829. 

Private  Fairfield  Coast  Guard,  November  4,  1776-February  7, 
1777;  Private,  "  Danbury  Alarm,"  April,  1777;  engaged  at 
Ridgefield. 

(MS.  Records  Fairfield  Coast  Guard  in  Pequot  Li- 
brary, Southport;  "Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution," 
page  629.) 

Bradley,  Cyrus  Sherwood,  Southport,  Conn.  A 
founder  of  the  Connecticut  Society. 

BRADLEY,  SETH,  Ensign.      1735-1798. 

Ensign  Thirteenth  Company,  Captain  Samuel  Wakeman,  Fourth 
Regiment  Connecticut  Militia,  Colonel  Gold  Selleck  Silli- 
man.  May,  1774-January,  1778;  appointed  Ensign  Captain 
Eliphalet  Thorp's  Company,  First  Battalion  Connecticut 
State  Troops,  Colonel  Samuel  Whiting,  November,  1776; 
resigned. 

("  Colonial  Records  of  Connecticut,"  Volume  14,  page 
266;  "State  Record  of  Connecticut,"  Volume  i,  pages  67, 
486;  "  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,'^  page  424.) 

Bradley,  Cyrus  Sherwood,  Southport,  Conn.  A 
founder  of  the  Connecticut  Society. 

BRADSTREET,  JOHN.     17 18 .     Ipswich,  Mass. 

Private  Captain  Moses  Jewett's  Troop  of  Horse,  Third  Regi- 
ment Massachusetts  Militia,  Colonel  John  Baker,  Lexington 
Alarm    April,    1775;    three    days'    service;    private    Captain 


ROSTER  OF  ANCESTORS  AND  DESCENDANTS.  43 

Thomas  Mighill's  Company,  Thirty-eighth  Regiment,  Col- 
onel Loamun  Baldwin,  April  23-December,  1775;  private 
Captain  Thomas  Mighill's  Company,  Twenty-sixth  Regi- 
ment, January,  1776. 

(MS.  Revolutionary  War  Archives  of  Massachusetts, 
Volume  12,  page  163;  Volume  15,  page  64;  Volume  56,  page 
257;  Volume  57,  file  27;  Volume  58,  file  3,  page  2;  certificate 
of  Wm.  M.  Olin,  Secretary  of  State  of  Massachusetts,  on 
file.) 
35  Bradstreet,  Thomas  Dudley,  Thomaston,  Conn. 

BROOKS,  SIMEON.     1740-1819. 

Private;  enlisted  May  8,  1775,  Captain  Ely's  Company,  Sixth 
Regiment  of  Connecticut;  discharged  October  11,  1775;  Col- 
onel Samuel  H.  Parsons;  enlisted  June- July,  1776,  Captain 
Stevens'  Company,  Colonel  Mott's  Battalion;  served  under 
General  Gates  at  Ticonderoga;  retired  November,  1776; 
enlisted  October  6,  1777,  Captain  Bristol's  Company,  Colonel 
Whiting's  Regiment,  Fourth  Connecticut  Militia;  served  at 
Peekskill  in  October,  1777;  discharged  December  6,  1777. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  77,  390, 
521.) 
113  Abbey,  Elmer  B.,  Hartford,  Conn. 

BROWN,  SHUBEL.     1761-1836. 

Private  in  Colonel  Samuel  Canfield's  Regiment  at  West  Point, 
September,  1781,  from  Pomfret,  Conn. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  583.) 
134  Bigelow,  Henry  Waite,  Allston,  Mass. 

BRUSH,  BENJAMIN. 

Ensign  Captain  Charles  Smith's  Company,  Ninth  Regiment  of 
Militia;  marched  November  10,  1776;  discharged  January 
II,  1777. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  489.     Ad- 
jutant-General's Certificate  on  file  with  application.) 

112  Knapp,    Edwin    Augustus.     Died    April    17,    1907. 
Greenwich,  Conn. 


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SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 


BULKELEY,  ELIPHALET,  Lieutenant-Colonel.      1746- 
1816. 

Captain  Third  Company,  Twelfth  Regiment  Connecticut  Mili- 
tia, Colonel  Wm.  Williams,  May,  1773;  eleven  days  in  serv- 
ice, Lexington  Alarm  April,  1775;  appointed  May,  1776, 
Captain  Colonel  David  Waterbury's  Regiment  Connecticut 
State  Troops;  promoted  Lieutenant-Colonel  Twenty-fifth 
Regiment  Connecticut  Militia,  Colonel  Elias  Worthington, 
May,  1780;  Deputy  to  the  General  Court  of  Colchester. 
October,   1778,  and  January,   1779. 

("  Colonial  Records  of  Connecticut,"  Volume  14,  page 
go;  Volume  15,  page  300;  "  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revo- 
ution,"  pages  7,  440;  "  State  Records  of  Connecticut,"  Vol- 
ume 2,  pages  122,  130,  170.) 

34  BuLKELEY^  Morgan  Gardner,  Hon.    Hartford,  Conn, 

57  Bulkeley,  William    Henry.     General.     Hartford, 
Conn.     Died  Nov.  7,  1902. 

60  Bulkeley,    William    Eliphalet    Adams,    Hartford, 
Conn. 

BULKLEY,  GERSHOM.     1750-1791. 

Private  Eighth  Company,  Captain  Jonathan  Dimon,  Fourth  Regi- 
ment Connecticut  Militia,  Colonel  Gold  Selleck  Silliman, 
May,  1776;  private  in  same  company  in  service  in  New  York, 
1776;  in  service  in  Fairfield  Coast  Guard  May  30-November 
I,  8,  27,  1776,  January  27-February  10,  1777,  and  in  1777, 
1778,  and  1779,  three  months  in  each  year,  and  in  1780,  six 
months,  and  also  in  1781  and  1782;  private,  "  Danbury 
Alarm,"  April,  1777,  also  in  service  at  the  burning  of  Fair- 
field, July  8,   1779. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  616;  MS. 
muster  roll  in  possession  of  Cyrus  S.  Bradley,  Southport ;  MS. 
Records  Fairfield  Coast  Guard,  in  Pequot  Library,  Southport; 
application  of  his  widow,  Amelia  Bulkeley,  for  the  pension 
which  she  received ;  statement  of  Greene  B.  Raum,  Commis- 
sioner of  Pensions,  on  file.) 


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Bradley,  Cyrus  Sherwood.     A  Founder  of  the  Con- 
necticut Society.     Southport,  Conn. 

Wakeman,    Jesup.     a    Founder    of    the    Connecticut 
Society.     Died  April  3,  1904. 

CAMPBELL,  ALEXANDER,  Lieutenant-Colonel.    173 1- 

1807. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  Sixth  Regiment,  Lincoln  County,  Massa- 
chusetts Militia,   1776- 1777. 

(MS.  Records  State  of  Massachusetts,  Volume  28,  page 
103;  Volume  26,  page  28;  certificate  of  Wm.  M.  Olin, 
Secretary  of  State,  on  file.) 

59  Wakefield,  Walter  Leslie,  Hartford,  Conn. 

CAMPBELL,  JAMES,  20.      1753-1835. 

Private  Captain  John  Perry's  Company  Massachusetts  Militia, 
Lexington  Alarm,  April,  1775;  private  Captain  John  Perry's 
Company,  Colonel  Timothy  Walker's  Regiment  Massachu- 
setts Militia,  April  28,  1775;  served  three  months  one  week 
and  four  days;  private  Captain  John  Perry's  Company, 
Twenty-second  Massachusetts  Regiment,  Colonel  Timothy 
Walker,  October  6,   1775;  served  eight  months. 

("  Records  State  of  Massachusetts,"  Volume  13,  page 
31 ;  Volume  16,  page  2;  Volume  56,  page  136.) 

85  Campbell,     James,     M.D.,     Hartford,     Conn.     Died 
Oct.  17,  1899. 

CHAFFEE,  ABIEL.     1761-1847. 

Private  Captain  John  McGregier's  Company,  Fourth  Regiment 
"Connecticut  Line,"  formation  of  1777-1781,  Colonel  John 
Durkee,  July,  1779-January,  1780;  private  Captain  William 
Judd's  Company,  Third  Regiment  "  Connecticut  Line," 
formation  of  1777-1781,  Colonel  Samuel  Wyllys,  July  I- 
December  11,  1780;  private  Captain  Timothy  Allyn's  Com- 
pany, Third  Regiment  "  Connecticut  Line,"  formation  of 
1 781-1783,  Colonel  Samuel  Blatchley  Webb,  February  6, 
1 78 1  February,  1782. 


46  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

("Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  i8o,  333, 
633,  663 ;  his  application  for  the  pension  which  he  received ; 
statement  of  Wm.  Lochren,  Commissioner  of  Pensions,  on 
file.) 

29  BowEN,  James  Barton,  Putnam,  Conn.     Died  March 
9,  1907. 

CHAMPION,     HENRY,     Colonel.      Colchester,     Conn. 
1723-1797. 

Lieutenant  May  i  to  December  10,  1775,  Eighth  Company,  Cap- 
tain Levi  Wells'  Colchester  Second  Regiment,  Colonel  Joseph 
Spencer:  Captain  First  Connecticut  Line,  January  i,  1777; 
served  as  Brigadier-Major  First  Connecticut  Brigade,  January 
I  to  May  13,  1779:  Captain,  Commissioned  January  i,  1777, 
Acting  Major  of  Merg's  Third  Regiment,  First  Battalion,  at 
Storming  of  Stony  Point,  July  15,  1779,  resigned  May  i, 
1780:  Colonel,  appointed  Commissary  April,  1775,  in  Jan- 
uary, 1778,  was  appointed  by  Colonel  Colt  sole  purchaser  of 
beef,  etc.,  in  the  Eastern  Department,  reappointed  by  the 
State  April,  1780;  one  of  the  most  efficient  of  the  Commis- 
saries; promoted  for  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  Twelfth  Regi- 
ment, October,  1775;  appointed  General  Commissary  and 
resigned  in  1777:  Colonel,  serving  as  Commissary  Twenty- 
fifth  Regiment  under  Brigadier-General  Saltonstall,  campaign 
around  New  York,   1776. 

("Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  50,  142, 
169,  241,  242,  431,  440,  450,  655.) 

169  Perkins,  Julius  Deming,  Jr.,  Litchfield,  Conn.     Died 
February  5,  1909. 

CHAPIN,  EPHRAIM,  of  Chicopee,  Mass.      1729-1805. 

Commissioned  Captain  June  13,  1776,  Eighth  Company  First 
Hampshire  County  Regiment  and  served  under  General 
Gates  in  the  Northern  Department  3  months,  21  da5'S. 

("  Massachusetts  Soldiers  and  Sailors  in  the  War  of 
the  Revolution.")     Volume  III,  page  310. 

202  Barbour,  Lucius  Barnes,  Hartford,  Conn. 


ROSTER  OF  ANCESTORS  AND  DESCENDANTS.  47 

CHENEY,  TIMOTHY,  Captain.     1731-1795. 

Captain  Lexington  Alarm,  from  town  of  Hartford,  April,  1775. 
("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  13.) 
67  Cheney,  James  Woodbridge,  South  Manchester,  Conn. 

CLARK,  ELIPHALET.      1756 .     Salisbury,  Conn. 

Private  Captain  Charles  Pond's  Company,  Sixth  Regiment,  "  Con- 
necticut Line,"  formation  of  1777-1781,  Colonel  Return 
Jonathan  Meigs,  October,  1777-May  2,  1780,  substitute  for 
his  brother,  Samuel  Clark,  who  had  enlisted  on  May  2,  1777, 
for  three  years ;  engaged  at  storming  of  Stony  Point,  July 
15,  1779. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  209,  641  ; 
his  application  for  the  pension  he  received ;  statement  of  Wm. 
Lochren,  Commissioner  of  Pensions,  on  file.) 

4  Foster,  Chauncey  Smith,  West  Winsted,  Conn.     A 
Founder  of  the  Connecticut  Society. 

CLINTON,  JAMES,  Brigadier-General.  1736-1812. 
Ulster  Co.,  N.  Y. 
Appointed  Colonel  Third  New  York  Regiment,  June  30,  1775, 
and  accompanied  General  Montgomery  to  Quebec;  August 
9,  1776,  was  made  Brigadier-General  and  was  in  command 
at  Fort  Clinton  when  it  was  attacked,  in  October,  1777,  by 
the  British,  under  Sir  Henr}-  Clinton;  was  a  member  of  the 
New  York  Convention  that  ratified  the  Constitution  of  the 
United  States. 
123  Jones,  Walter  Clinton,  Middletown,  Conn. 

COLTON,  BENJAMIN,  Jr.    1722-1808.    Longmeadow, 

Mass. 
Served  in  Captain  James  Warringer's  Company,  April  19,  1775; 
marched  to  Lexington ;  served  ten  days. 

(Massachusetts  Soldiers  and  Sailors  in  the  Revolution, 
Volume  3,  page  842.) 
189  Moore,  James  Bunce,  Hartford,  Conn. 

COLTON,  JOSEPH.      1744- 1779.     Wilbraham,  Mass. 
Served  in  Captain  Daniel  Caldwell's  Company,  Colonel  Robin- 
son's Regiment,  December  25,  1776  to  April  2,  1777;  Sergeant 


48  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

Captain    Abel    King's    Company,    Colonel    Sears'    Regiment, 
August  20,   1 78 1   to  November  20,   1781,  at  Saratoga. 

(Massachusetts  Soldiers  and  Sailors  in  Revolution,  Vol- 
ume 3,  p.  847.) 

189  Moore,  James  Bunce,  Hartford,  Conn. 


COMSTOCK,    PETER.      1731-1803.     Montvllle,    Conn. 

Commissioned  Captain  of  the  Thirteenth  Company,  Third 
Regiment,  October  21,  1778.  Was  stationed  at  Fort  Trum- 
bull, New  London,  Conn. 

("  Records  State  of  Connecticut,"  1 778-1 780,  Volume  2, 
page  142;  "Year  Book,  Connecticut"  S.  A.  R.,  1900-1903, 
page  537;  Baker's  "History'  of  Montville,"  page  141-142; 
Hurd's  "  New^  London  County,"  page  243.) 

172  Harris,  Walter  St.  George,  Hartford,  Conn. 

COTTON,  ROWLAND,  Sergeant.      1 757-1 848. 

Private  Captain  Stephen  Brow^n's  Company,  Fourth  Regiment 
"Connecticut  Line,"  Colonel  John  Durkee,  April  20,  1777; 
appointed  Corporal  September  i,  1777,  discharged  April  20, 
1780;  Sergeant  Captain  Lemuel  Clift's  Company,  First  Regi- 
ment "  Connecticut  Line,"  Colonel  John  Durkee,  January 
17,  1781-December  31,  1781  ;  Sergeant  on  roll  of  Susque- 
hanna Men,  in  First  Connecticut  Continental  Regiment. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  186,  319, 
626;  certified  copy  of  statement  of  Colonel  F.  C.  Ainsworth, 
U.  S.  Army,  Chief  of  Record  and  Pension  Office,  War  Depart- 
ment, on  file.) 

75  Cotton,  Charles  Stanhope,  Rear  Admiral  U.  S.  N. 

Died  February,  1909. 
71  Cotton,  Charles  Stanhope,  Jr.,  Seattle,  Wash. 

COUCH,  SIMON.     1729-1809. 

Authorized  to  raise  recruits  for  the  Continental  Army,  1781. 


ROSTER  OF  ANCESTORS  AND  DESCENDANTS. 


49 


("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  629.) 

Bradley,  Cyrus  Sherwood.     A  Founder  of  the  Con- 
necticut Society.     Southport,  Conn. 

6  Sherwood,    Simon    Couch,    Southport,    Conn.     Died 
March,  1906. 

COUCH,  SIMON,  Corporal.      1755-1807. 

Corporal  Captain  Ezekiel  Hull's  Company,  Third  Regiment 
Light  Horse,  Major  Ezra  Starr;  honorably  discharged  June 
9,  1783. 

(Original   MS.   discharge   in  possession   of  Cyrus  Sher- 
wood Bradley,  Southport.) 

Bradley,    Cyrus    Sherwood,    Southport,    Conn.     A 
Founder  of  the  Connecticut  Society. 

6  Sherwood,     Simon     Couch.     Died     March,      1906. 
Southport,  Conn. 

CRANE,  JOHN. 

Captain  Colonel  Henry  Luddington's  Seventh  Regiment  of 
Dutchess  County,  New  York,  Militia,  General  Swartwout's 
Brigade,   1 776-1 780. 

(Statement  of  Record  and  Pension  Office,  War  Depart- 
ment, Washington,  D.  C,  on  file  with  application.) 

112  Knapp,    Edwin    Augustus.      Died    April    17,    1907. 
Greenwich,  Conn. 

CULVER,  DAVID.     New  London,  Conn.      1738-1814. 

Sergeant  in  Captain  Herman's  Company.  Enlisted  January 
I,  1777,  discharged  December  31,  1779;  Fourth  Regiment 
"  Connecticut  Line,"  Colonel  John  Durkee;  served  from  July 
I,  1780  to  December  10,  1780  Eighth  Regiment  "  Connecticut 
Line,"  Colonel  John  Chandler;  enlisted  January  10,  1778, 
Captain  Daniel  Dewey's  Company,  Colonel  Obadiah  John- 
son's Regiment  and  served  in  the  State  of  Rhode  Island  for 
two  months. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  183,  239, 
529.) 

197  WiCKHAM,  Clarence  Horace,  Hartford,  Conn. 
4 


50 


SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 


DAVIS,  AARON,  Colonel.      1709-1777. 

Captain  Massachusetts  Militia,  1775;  later  Colonel  Massachu- 
setts Militia;  member  Massachusetts  Provincial  Congress, 
1774-1775;  member  Massachusetts  General  Court,  1775- 
1776. 

("Journals  Provincial  Congress,"  W.  Lincoln,  1838; 
Drake's  "  History  of  Roxbury,"   1878.) 

48  Chase,  Charles  Francis.     New  Britain,  Conn. 
DEAN,  EPHRAIM.     1759-1804. 

Private  Captain  Boyd's  Company  of  Drake's  Regiment  New 
York  Troops,   1775. 

(Archives  State  of  New  York;  "  The  Revolution,"  under 
Title  "  Roster  of  State  Troops,"  pages  355-6.) 

54  Dean,  George  William,  Stamford,  Conn.     Died  Jan- 
uary 28,  1908. 

DEMING,  JULIUS,  Captain.     1755-1838. 

Captain  Commissary  Department  under  Colonel  Henry  Cham- 
pion; pensioner  under  Act  of  1832. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  630,  653.) 

63  Deming,    Julius,    Litchfield,    Conn.     Died    December 
30,  1902. 

DIMON,  JOHN.     1730-1777- 

Private  "  Danbury  Alarm,"  April,  1777;  taken  prisoner;  taken 
to  New  York  and  died  there. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  493;  MS. 
Records  of  the  Probate  Court  of  Fairfield,  Volume,  1778- 
1781,  page  164.) 

Bradley,    Cyrus    Sherwood,    Southport,    Conn.      A 
Founder  of  the  Connecticut  Society. 

DIX(S) ON,  JAMES.     1728. 

Private  Lieutenant-Colonel  Ebenezer  Gray's  Company,  Sixth 
Regiment  Connecticut,  enlisted  September   i,   1780;  Private, 


ROSTER  OF  ANCESTORS  AND  DESCENDANTS.  51 

Sixth    Company,    Fourth    Connecticut    Regiment;    Private, 
Second  Company,  Second  Connecticut  Regiment. 

("Connecticut    Men    in    the    Revolution,"    pages    342, 
362.) 

134  BiGELOw^  Henry  Waite^  Allston,  Mass. 

DOUGLASS,  William,  Colonel.      1 742-1 777. 

Commissioned  May  i,  1775,  Captain  Sixth  Company  First  Con- 
necticut Continental  Regiment,  Major-General  David  Woos- 
ter;  appointed  May,  1775,  Major  Second  Regiment  Connecti- 
cut Militia,  Colonel  Jonathan  Fitch;  resigned  October,  1776; 
appointed  June  13,  1775,  Aide-de-Camp  to  General  Woos- 
ter;  discharged  December,  1775;  appointed  January  11,  1776, 
by  Council  of  Safety,  Major  Colonel  Andrew^  Ward's  Regi- 
ment, Connecticut  State  Troops;  discharged  February,  1776; 
appointed  May,  1776,  Major  Colonel  Andrew  Ward's  Con- 
tinental Regiment,  but  did  not  serve ;  commissioned  June  20, 
1776,  Colonel  Fifth  Battalion,  Brigadier-General  James 
Wadsworth's  State  Brigade;  discharged  January  4,  1777; 
commissioned  January  i,  1777,  Colonel  Sixth  Regiment 
"  Connecticut  Line  " ;  died  from  effects  of  previous  service. 
May  28,  1777;  Deputy  to  the  General  Court  of  Branford, 
May,  1776. 

("Colonial  Records  of  Connecticut,"  Volume  14,  page 
423;  Volume  15,  pages  42,  225,  270,  300,  422,  428;  "State 
Records  of  Connecticut,"  Volume  i,  pages  28,  13,  400,  558; 
"Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  37,  41,  127, 
205,  387,  392,  406,  432.) 

DowD,  Frank  Curtis,  Madison,  Conn.     A  Founder  of 
of  the  Connecticut  Society. 

EASTMAN,  STEPHEN.     1719-1797. 

Drummer  on  muster  roll  of  Captain  Moses  McFarland's  Com- 
pany, Colonel  John  Mixin's  Regiment,  dated  August  i,  1775; 
enlisted  April  30,  1775;  December  20,  1775. 

("  Massachusetts    Revolutionary    Rolls,"    Volume    XV, 
page   62;    Volume    LXVI,    page   21;    Volume    LXVII,    file 
3.) 
141   Eastman,  George  Larnard,  Danbury,  Conn. 


52 


SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 


ELLSWORTH,  SOLOMON,  Lieutenant.     1737- 1822. 

Lieutenant  Second  Company  in  East  Windsor,  Captain  Lemuel 
Stoughton,  Nineteenth  Regiment  Connecticut  Militia,  Col- 
onel Erastus  Wolcott,  1775;  seven  days  in  service  Lexington 
Alarm,  April,  1775. 

("Colonial  Records  of  Connecticut,"  Volume   14,  page 
273;  "Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  10.) 

7  Cornwall,  Nathaniel  Ellsworth,  Reverend.    Strat- 
ford, Conn.     Founder. 

ELWOOD,  THOMAS.     Lieutenant. . 


Private  Captain  David  Dimon's  Company,  Lexington  Alarm; 
seven  days  in  service,  April,  1775;  private  Fourth  Company, 
Captain  David  Dimon's  Fifth  Connecticut  Continental  Regi- 
ment, Colonel  David  Waterbury,  May  lO-December  14, 
1775;  Lieutenant  of  Marines  on  Frigate  Alliance,  Captain 
Peter  Landais,  afterwards  Captain  Barry,  August  24,  1778; 
retired  from  service  May  i,  1783. 

("Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  11,  67; 
other  references  on  file  with  New  York  Society.) 

Fairchild,  Thomas  Benjamin,  Stratford,  Conn.  A 
Founder  of  the  Connecticut  Society.  Died  February 
7,  1897- 

FAXON,  EBENEZER.     1749-1811. 

Private.  August  15,  1776,  name  appears  on  muster  roll  of  Lieu- 
tenant Charles  Seymour's  Company,  also  on  Lexington 
Alarm  list,  April,  1775. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  13. 
"  Connecticut  Historical  Society  Collections,"  Volume  viii, 
page  274.     History  of  the  Faxon  family,  page  114.) 

144  Faxon,  Walter  Collyer,  Hartford,  Conn. 

FILER,  ROGER  (or  Tyler  sometimes  spelt). 1778. 

Private  Captain  Fitch  Bissell's  Company,  Seventeenth  Connecti- 
cut Continental  Regiment,  Colonel  Jedediah  Huntington, 
1776. 


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53 


("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  102;  Stiles' 
"  Ancient  Windsor,"  Volume  2,  pages  276,  298 ;  "  Steven 
Hart  and  His  Descendants,"  pages  190,  224,  747,  869,  1104.) 

183  Hart,  Harrie  E.,  New  Britain,  Conn. 
FILER,  THOMAS.     1739-1777. 

Private.  Enlisted  November  i,  1776,  in  Second  Company  of  the 
Fourth  Regiment,  New  York  Line;  was  killed  near  Pough- 
keepsie,  N.  Y.,  October  31,  1777. 

(Archives  of  State  of  New  York,  "  The  Revolution," 
Volume  I,  page  211.  Year  Book.  Empire  State  Society 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  1899,  pages  199,  428.) 

128  DiMON,  John  Nicoll^  New  London,  Conn. 

FLINT,  JAMES  L.     W^indham,  Conn. 

Private  Sixth  Regiment  "  Connecticut  Line,"  Colonel  William 
Douglass;  enlisted  May  i,  1778,  Captain  David  Humphrey's 
Company,  promoted  to  Corporal  December,  1780;  Sergeant 
January  I,  178 1,  Fourth  Regiment  "  Connecticut  Line," 
Colonel  Zebulon  Butler,  to  December  31,   1781. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  210,  340.) 
177  George  W.  Flint,  Danbury,  Conn. 

FLOYD,  V^ILLIAM,  Colonel.     1 734-1 821. 

Member  Continental  Congress,  1774-1783;  Signer  Declaration 
of  Independence ;  member  New  York  Provincial  Convention, 
April  20,  1775;  Colonel  First  Regiment,  Suffolk  County 
(New  York)  Militia,  1775;  member  New  York  Council  of 
Safety,  1777;  member  New  York  Senate,  1777-1788. 

("  Lanman's  Biographical  Annals  of  the  Civil  Govern- 
ment of  the  U.  S.,"  pages  149,  487 ;  "  Civil  List  State  of  New 
York,"  Series  1889-91,  pages  113,  116,  416;  "Archives  of  the 
State  of  New  York,"  Volume  i,  page  287.) 

Delafield,  Augustus  Floyd,  Noroton,  Conn.  A 
Founder  of  the  Connecticut  Society.  Died  July  18, 
1904. 


54  ^ONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

FOSTER,  JOSEPH.     1762-1846.     Hampton,  Conn. 

Joseph  Foster  was  one  of  twelve  sons  who,  with  their  father, 
Timothy  Foster,  enlisted  for  service  from  Dudley,  Mass. 
Joseph  Foster  was  fourteen  years  of  age  at  time  of  enlist- 
ment and  served  as  a  fifer.     Enlisted  July  i,   1780. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  465,  657.) 
152  Louis  W.  Button,  Rocky  Hill,  Conn. 

FOWLER,  MOSES. 

Private  Captain  Jacob  Purdy's  Company,  Second  Regiment  of 
Westchester  Militia,  Colonel  Thomas  Thomas,  June  9,  1779. 

("Treasurer's  Certificates,"  Volume  3,  State  of  New 
York,  page  2.) 

112  Knapp,   Edwin   Augustus,   Greenwich,   Conn.     Died 
April  17,  1907. 

FRANCIS,  JOHN.     1744-1824. 

Sergeant  Captain  Hezekiah  Wells'  Company  of  Wethersfield, 
Colonel  Erastus  Wolcott's  Regiment,  January  to  March, 
1776;  Private  Captain  Chester  Wells'  Company,  Colonel 
Belden's  Regiment,  April  10  to  May  22,  1777;  Ensign  Cap- 
tain Nathaniel  Bunnell's  Company,  Colonel  Roger  Enos' 
Regiment,  June,  1777;  Second  Lieutenant  Captain  Elijah 
Wright's  Company,  Colonel  Enos'  Regiment,  June  29,  1778; 
Lieutenant  Captain  Samuel  Granger's  Company,  Colonel 
Levi  Wells'  Regiment,  1780;  Captain  of  First  Company  of 
Wethersfield  in  Provisional  Regiment,   1781. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  383,  497, 
539,  586,  614,  615.  "  Records  of  State  of  Connecticut,"  Vol- 
ume I,  pages  255,  256,  466;  Volume  2,  pages  29,  91,  284, 
459j  533-  "  Boardman  Genealogy,"  page  586,  614,  615. 
"  History  Hartford  County,"  pages  475,  476.) 

147  Boardman,    William     Francis    Joseph,     Hartford, 
Conn.     Died  November  23,  19 12. 

FRANKLIN,  HENRY.     1 741- 1800.     Amherst,  Mass. 

Sergeant  in  Lieutenant  Noah  Dickinson's  Company  which 
marched  from  Amherst,  Massachusetts,  to  Cambridge,  Lexing- 


ROSTER  OF  ANCESTORS  AND  DESCENDANTS.  55 

ton  Alarm,  April  19,  1775,  service  nine  days;  Sergeant  in  Cap- 
tain Reuben  Dickinson's  Company,  Colonel  Charles  Porter's 
Regiment,  from  the  County  of  Hampshire,  Massachusetts, 
which  marched  to  Stillwater,  September  23,  1777;  enlisted 
September  23,   1777;  discharged  October  24,   1777. 

("  Massachusetts  Military  Rolls,"  Roll  44,  V^olume  12  to 
Volume  18,  page  197.) 

162  Henry  Hervey  Hills,  Hartford,  Conn. 

FULLER,  JOHN,  Captain.      1731-1801. 

Captain  Colonel  Asa  Whitcomb's  Massachusetts  Regiment, 
1775-1782. 

(MS.  "  Revolutionary  War  Archives  of  Massachusetts," 
Volume  14,  page  85;  Volume  28,  page  62;  Volume  51,  page 
89;  "  MS.  Archives  of  Massachusetts,"  Volume  146,  page  83; 
Volume  147,  page  156;  Volume  148,  page  115.) 

28  Heaton,  John  Edward,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

GARRETT,  JOHN  V^AIT,  Major. 1778. 

Appointed  Lieutenant  First  Company,  Twenty-fourth  (West- 
moreland) Regiment  Connecticut  Militia,  Colonel  Zebulon 
Butler,  October,  1775;  promoted  Captain  October,  1776; 
promoted  Major  October,  1777;  killed  in  action  at  Wyom- 
ing July  3,  1778. 

("Colonial  Records  of  Connecticut,"  Volume  15,  page 
152;  "State  Records  of  Connecticut,"  Volume  i,  pages  31, 
430;  "  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revoution,"  page  440.) 

2  Gates,  Howard  Eugene,  M.D.     A  Founder  of  the 
Connecticut  Society.     Died  November  9,  1908. 

GATES,  JOHN.     1764-1839.     St.  Albans,  Vt. 

Enlisted  Marlboro,  Massachusetts,  age  16,  in  Colonel  Benjamin 
Tupper's  Regiment  and  served  to  the  close  of  the  war. 

(Volume  XIV,  "  1896  Lineage  Book  National  Society 
Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution,"  page  17.) 

168  James  Wilder  Gilson,  Racine,  Wis. 


56  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

GLENNY,  WILLIAM,  Lieutenant.     1 760-1 800. 

Sergeant  Fourth  Regiment  "  Connecticut  Line,"  formation  of 
1777-1781,  Colonel  John  Durlcee,  January  i,  1777;  pro- 
moted Ensign  Captain  John  Durkee's  Company,  First  Regi- 
ment "Connecticut  Line,"  formation  of  1781-1783,  Colonel 
John  Durlcee;  Ensign  First  Regiment  "Connecticut  Line," 
formation  of  January-June,  1783,  Colonel  Zebulon  Butler; 
promoted  Lieutenant,  Colonel  Heman  Swift's  Regiment 
"Connecticut  Line,"  final  formation,  June-December,  1783; 
member  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  1783. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  183,  320, 
359,  368,  373.) 

77  French,  Louis,  Reverend,  Noroton,  Conn.     Died  Sep- 
tember 29,  191 2. 

88  French,    Louis     Mardenbrough,     Noroton,     Conn. 
GOODRICH,  ELIZUR.     1730-1785. 

Private  Ninth  Company  of  Wethersfield  Second  Regiment,  Cap- 
tain  John    Chester,    Colonel    Joseph    Spencer,    at    Battle    of 
Bunker  Hill;  enlisted  May  15,   1775;  discharged  December 
<  17,  1775;  Third  Company,  Captain  Selah  Heart's  Company, 

Colonel  Wolcott's  Regiment,  from  January  to  March,  1776; 
Sergeant  of  Lieutenant  David  Smith's  Company,  Sixth  Regi- 
ment, Colonel  Thomas  Belden;  enlisted  April  13,  discharged 
May  19,  1777;  served  on  committee  appointed  by  the  Town 
of  Wethersfield  to  purchase  articles  requested  by  the  Gover- 
nor and  Council  for  the  use  of  the  Continental  Army  raised  in 
this  State  and  forward  same  to  Elisha  Hubbard,  Commissary; 
also  to  borrow  money  to  pay  bounties  ofiFered  by  the  Town, 
etc. 

("Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  51,  383, 
496.  Hinman's  "  Connecticut  in  the  War  of  the  Revolu- 
tion," page  292.  "  Goodrich  Genealogy,"  page  76.  Wethers- 
field Town  Records.  "  Boardman  Genealogy,"  pages  400, 
694,  605.) 

147  Boardman,    William    Francis    Joseph,    Hartford, 
Conn.     Died  November  23,  19 12. 


ROSTER  OF  ANCESTORS  AND  DESCENDANTS.  57 

GOODYEAR,  THEOPHILUS,  Corporal.     1731-1793. 

Private  Third  Company,  Captain  Samuel  Peck,  Fifth  Battalion, 
Colonel  William  Douglass,  Brigadier-General  James  Wads- 
worth's  State  Brigade,  1776;  Corporal  Captain  Joseph  Mans- 
field's Company,  Sixth  Regiment  "  Connecticut  Line,"  Forma- 
tion of  1777-1781,  Colonel  William  Douglass,  April  i,  1777- 
December  31,  1779;  invalid  pensioner, 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  207,  408, 
649.) 
28  Heaton^  John  Edward^  New  Haven,  Conn, 

GOULD,  EBENEZER.     1760-1809. 

Private  Captain  Job  Knap's  Company  Massachusetts  Militia,  in 
service  at  Rhode  Island  February  28-March  15,  1781. 

("  MS,  Revolutionary  War  Archives  of  Massachusetts," 
Volume  2,  page  175;  certificate  of  Wm,  M.  Olin,  Secretary 
of  State  of  Massachusetts,  on  file.) 

45  GouLD^  David  Henry,  New  York. 

GOULD,  ELEAZER,  Sergeant.     1720 . 

Sergeant  Captain  Caleb  Whiting's  Company  Massachusetts  Mili- 
tia; ten  days  in  service  Lexington  Alarm,  April,  1775, 

("  MS.  Revolutionary  War  Archives  of  Massachusetts," 
Volume  13,  page  167;  certificate  of  Wm.  M.  Olin,  Secretary 
of  State  of  Massachusetts,  on  file.) 

45  Gould,  David  Henry,  New  York. 
GREENE,  JAMES.     1728-1809. 

Captain.  Was  Senior  Captain  of  the  Second  Regiment  of  Light 
Horse  of  Connecticut,  and  was  present  with  them  at  New 
York  in  September,  1776,  also  at  Saratoga  and  the  capture 
of  Burgoyne  in  1777  and  later  did  duty  in  Rhode  Island 
and  often  in  the  State.  Nathan  Hale,  while  teaching  at  East 
Haddam,  Conn.,  1773-4,  lived  at  the  house  of  Captain  James 
Greene,  and  Richard  Greene,  the  son,  was  a  scholar  of  Nathan 
Hale  in  the  old  schoolhouse. 


58  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

("  Munson  Genealogy,"  II  762.  "  Winslow  Geneal- 
ogy," I,  104.     "  Lineage  Book,  D.  A.  R.,"  IV,  25.) 

119  Warner,  Charles  Belden. 

122  BoARDMAN,  Eugene,  East  Haddam,  Conn. 

GRIFFING,  DANIEL.     Southhold,  N.  Y.     1736-1823. 

Captain  Third  Regiment,  New  York  Line,  Colonel  James  Clin- 
ton, June  28,  1775-April  27,  1776;  Captain  Second  Regi- 
ment, New  York  Line,  Colonel  James  Clinton,  stationed  at 
Fort  Montgomery,  January  18,  1777;  Captain  in  command  of 
armed  vessel  "Revenge,"  April  2,  1778;  refugee  from  Long 
Island  to  Guilford,  Conn.,  in  1776. 

(New  York  State  Archives  ("  New  York  in  Revolu- 
tion"), Volume  I,  pages  40,  71,  97,  98,  145,  254,  528.) 

205  Gripping,  Robert  A.,  Hartford,  Conn. 
HALLETT,  JOSEPH.     1731-1799. 

Member  of  New  York  Committee  of  One  Hundred,  May  i, 
1775;  member  of  New  York  Provincial  Congress,  1775-6. 

("  Civil  List,  State  of  New  York,"  Series  1889-91,  pages 
114,  452-3;  "Archives  of  the  State  of  New  York,"  Volume 
I,  page  3.) 

Delafield,  Augustus  Floyd,  Noroton,  Conn.  A 
Founder  of  the  Connecticut  Society.  Died  July  18, 
1904. 

HAMILTON,    ALEXANDER,    Brevet-Colonel.       1757- 
1804. 

Appointed  Captain  New  York  Provincial  Artillery,  March  14, 
1776;  Aide-de-Camp  to  the  Commander-in-Chief,  with  rank 
of  Lieutenant-Colonel  by  Brevet,  September  28,  1783,  to 
end  of  war;  member  Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 

("  Archives  of  the  State  of  New  York,"  Volume  i,  pages 
84,  244,  etc. ;  Heitman's  "  Register  of  Officers  in  the  Con- 
tinental Army,"  page  206.) 

Rev.  Alexander  Hamilton,  Dover  Plains,  N.  Y. 
Founder. 


ROSTER  OF  ANCESTORS  AND  DESCENDANTS.  59 

HARRIS,      NATHANIEL.        1743-1812.        Colchester, 
Conn. 

Commissioned  Captain  Eleventh  Company,  Twelfth  Connecticut 
Regiment,  October  ii,  1777. 

("  Connecticut  Historical  Society  Revolutionary  Rec- 
ords," Volume  8,  page  210.  "  Haskell's  Receipts,"  page  75, 
at  Comptroller's  Office.  "  Year  Book  Connecticut  S.  A.  R.," 
1900-1903,  page  536-537.  Original  Commission  in  posses- 
sion of  applicant.) 

172  Walter  St.  George  Harris,  Hartford,  Conn. 
HICKOK,  JOHN.     1734-1810. 

Private  Captain  Daniel  Benedict's  Company,  Ninth  Regiment 
Connecticut  Militia,  Lieutenant-Colonel  John  Mead,  Au- 
gust I2-September  8,  1776;  enlisted  in  same  company  under 
command  of  Lieutenant  John  Carter  January  12,  1777;  dis- 
charged January  25,   1777. 

("  Connecticut    Men    in    the    Revolution,"    page    459, 
485.) 
51  Warren,  Henry  Joseph,  Stamford,  Conn. 

HILL,  EBENEZER. 

Private.     Pensioner  of  the  War  of  the  Revolution. 
(Affidavits  on  file  with  application.) 

140  Crandall,  Harvey  LeMond,  Farmington,  Conn. 

HITCHCOCK,  LEMUEL.     1749-1829.    Cheshire,  Conn. 

Private  Ninth  Company,  First  Regiment,  General  Wooster, 
1775;  Second  Lieutenant  Eighth  Regiment,  Connecticut 
Line,  January  i,  1777;  First  Lieutenant  Eighth  Regiment, 
Connecticut  Line,  March  10,  1778;  Sergeant  Captain  Bun- 
nell's Company,  Wallingford,  Conn.,  Fifth  Battalion,  Wads- 
worth's  Brigade. 

("Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  43,  230, 
409,  643.) 

151   Hitchcock,  Albert  Emerson,  Sunburst,  Montana. 


6o  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

HODGE,  PHILO.      1 756-1 842.     Roxbury,  Conn. 

Private  Captain  Peter  Perritt's  Company,  Nineteenth  Conti- 
nental Regiment,  Colonel  Charles  Webb,  January,  1776-Janu- 
ary,  1777;  private  Captain  Benjamin  Mine's  Company,  Second 
Battalion  Connecticut  State  Troops,  Colonel  Thaddeus  Cook, 
January- April,  1777;  also  in  service  a  few  days  in  "Dan- 
bury  Alarm,"  in  Second  Company,  Captain  Samuel  Treat, 
Second  Regiment  Connecticut  Militia,  April,  1777. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  635,  663; 
his  application  for  the  pension  which  he  received;  statement 
of  Wm.  Lochren,  Commissioner  of  Pensions,  on  file.) 

31  Hodge,  Charles  W.,  Roxbury  Station,  Conn. 
HOLBROOK,  JOHN.     1726-1801. 

Member  Derby  Committee  of  Inspection,  elected  December  11, 
1775;  member  of  committee  to  take  care  of  soldiers'  clothing, 
elected  December  14,  1778. 

("  Derby  Town  Proceedings,"  Volume  i,  pages  106,  107, 
126,  127;  certificate  on  file.) 

32  Johnson,  Frederick  Curtis,  Colonel.     Died  Decem- 

ber 24,  1896. 

HOLCOMBE,  ELIJAH.     1 73 1 . 

Private  Third  Company,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Roger  Enos,  Sec- 
ond Connecticut  Continental  Regiment,  Brigadier-General 
Joseph  Spencer,  May  7-December  19,  1775;  private  Captain 
James  Judson's  Company,  Major  John  Skinner's  Regiment 
Connecticut  Militia,  Light  Horse,  July  8-August  3,  1776; 
private  Second  Regiment  Continental  Light  Dragoons,  Col- 
onel Elisha  Sheldon,  January  i,  1 781-1783. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  47,  283, 
476.) 

Wessels,  Henry  Walton,  Colonel.  Founder  and 
first  Treasurer  of  the  Connecticut  Society  Sons  of  the 
Revolution.     Died  September  26,  1909. 


ROSTER  OF  ANCESTORS  AND  DESCENDANTS.  6l 

HOLMES,  JABEZ,  Sergeant.      1751-1817. 

Sergeant  Captain  William  Stanton's  Company,  Eighth  Regiment 
Connecticut  Militia,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Oliver  Smith,  Sep- 
tember 8-November  17,  1776. 

("Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  453; 
Records  Pension  Office,  War  Department;  certificate  of 
Colonel  F.  C.  Ainsworth,  U.  S.  Army,  Chief  of  Office,  on 
file.) 

55  Holmes,  George  James,  M.D.,   New  Britain,  Conn. 
Died  1907. 

HOTCHKISS,  GIDEON.     1716-1807. 

Member  of  the  Committee  of  Inspection  of  the  Town  of  Water- 
bury,  1776,  1777;  acted  as  Commissary,  procuring  and  con- 
ducting provisions  and  clothing  to  the  American  forces  on  the 
Hudson  River,  1777;  Captain  of  a  company  raised  in  and  sent 
from  Waterbury,  to  take  part  in  the  War  of  the  Revolu- 
tion. 

("Anderson's  History  of  Waterbury,"  Volume  i,  pages 
411,  460,  463.) 

80  Sanford,  Frederick  R.,  Reverend,  Madison,  Conn. 
HULL,  JEDEDIAH.     1732-1796. 

First  Lieutenant  Captain  Diamond's  Company  of  Fairfield,  May 
17,  1775. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,") 
138  Pearce,  Reuben  Booth,  Danbury,  Conn. 

HULL,  JOHN.      1732-179 1.     Fairfield,  Conn. 

Lieutenant  Fairfield  Coast  Guards,  October  27,  1776-Nov.  8, 
1776;  January  28,  1777. 

(Original  Records  of  Coast  Guards.) 

Jesup  Wakeman,  New  York.  A  Founder  of  Connecti- 
cut Society  Sons  of  Revolution.  Died  April  3, 
1904,  New  York  City. 


62  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

HUMPHREY,    JOSEPH,    Sergeant.     Simsbury,    Conn. 
1743-1809. 

Sergeant  of  Lieutenant  Job  Case's  Company  in  the  Third  Mili- 
tary Camp  of  the  Eighteenth  Regiment  of  Connecticut  Militia, 
which  arrived  at  New  York  August  24,  1776,  and  was  dis- 
charged September  13,  1776. 

("  Connecticut    Men    in    the    Revolution,"    pages    470, 
623.) 
191  James  Humphrey  Chalker,  New  York  City. 

HUNT,  RUSSELL.     1732-18—. 

Second  Lieutenant  Second  Battalion,  Thaddeus  Cook,  Colonel, 
John  Watson,  Captain. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  424.) 
121   Hunt,  Charles  Kellogg,  Winsted,  Conn. 

HUNTINGTON,  JEDEDIAH,  Brigadier-General.    1743- 
1818.     Norwich,  Conn. 

Colonel  Norwich  Connecticut  Militia,  Lexington  Alarm,  April, 
1775;  Colonel  Eighth  Connecticut  Continental  Regiment, 
July  6-September  10,  1775;  Colonel  Seventeenth  Connecticut 
Continental  Regiment,  1776;  Colonel  First  Regiment  "  Con- 
necticut Line,"  formation  of  1777-1781;  Colonel  Twentieth 
Regiment  Connecticut  Militia;  Brigadier-General  Conti- 
nental Army,  May  12,  1777,  to  close  of  War. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages   19,   36, 
85,  96,    loi,    141,    145,   312,   439;   Heitman's  "Register  of 
Officers  of  the  Continental  Army.") 
62  Huntington,  Frederick  Jabez,  Norwich,  Conn. 

HYDE,  JOSEPH.     1761 . 

Private  Fairfield  Coast  Guard  nine  months;  Private  "  Danbury 
Alarm  " ;  engaged  at  Ridgefield ;  wounded  at  Compo ;  also  in 
service  at  the  burning  of  Fairfield,  and  at  Norwalk. 

(Autograph  statement  and  affidavit  of  Joseph  Wakeman, 
dated  October  19,  1838,  both  in  possession  of  Simon  Couch 
Sherwood.) 


ROSTER  OF  ANCESTORS  AND  DESCENDANTS.  63 

6  Sherwood,    Simon    Couch,    Southport,    Conn.     Died 
March,   1906. 

JACKMAN,  ENOCH.      1752-1833.     Salisbury,  Mass. 

Lexington  Alarm,  April  19,  1775,  Captain  Merrill's  Company, 
Colonel  Caleb  Cushing;  December,  1775,  Captain  Page's 
Company,  Colonel  Titcomb's  Regiment  at  Brookline,  Siege 
of  Boston;  enlisted  May,  1776,  Captain  Roger's  Company; 
served  as  Corporal,  Sergeant,  1778,  Captain  Clark's  Company, 
Colonel  Thorndike's  Regiment.     Pensioner  under  act  1732. 

("  Massachusetts  Soldiers  in  Revolution,"  Archives,  Vol- 
ume 13,  page  206,  Volume  19,  page  55;  "Certificate  of 
Pensions,"  Volume  8,  pages  655,  657.) 

186  Jackman,  Elmer  A.,  Hartford,  Conn. 

JENNISON,  JOHN,  Captain.     1744-1804. 

First  Lieutenant  Captain  Christopher  Webber's  Company,  Col- 
onel Benjamin  Bellow's  New  Hampshire  Regiment,  March 
16,  1776;  promoted  Captain;  in  service  till  1780. 

("  New  Hampshire  MS.  State  Papers,"  Volume  10,  pages 
591,  593,  594,  595,  596,  599,  602,  603;  Volume  14,  page 
297;  Volume  15,  pages  23,  37;  Volume  17,  pages  528,  532.) 

28  Heaton,  John  Edward,  New  Haven,  Conn, 

JESUP,  EBENEZER,  M.D.,  Ensign.     1739-18 12. 

Ensign  Captain  Thomas  Nash's  Company,  in  service  of  the  Fourth 
Regiment  Connecticut  Militia,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Jonathan 
Dimon,  at  Peekskill,  October  5-30,   1777. 

("Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  518.) 

6  Sherwood,    Simon    Couch,    Southport,    Conn.     Died 
March,   1906. 

JOHNSON,  ISAAC.     1758-1805. 

Private.  Enlisted  May  8,  1777,  in  Captain  Humphrey's  Com- 
pany, Sixth  Regiment,  "  Connecticut  Line."  Transferred 
August  I,  1 78 1,  to  First  Regiment. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  212,  318.) 
149  Bradley,  Seymour  Percy,  New  Haven,  Conn. 


64  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

JONES,  JOHN,  Lieutenant.      1739-18 17. 

Second  Lieutenant  Captain  Noble  Benedict's  Company,  Colonel 
Philip  Burr  Bradley's  Battalion,  Brigadier-General  James 
Wadsworth's  State  Brigade,  1776. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  414.) 

3  Jones,  John  Smith,  Westport,  Conn.  A  Founder  of 
the  Connecticut  Society.     Died  November  13,  1906. 

II  Jones,  Timothy,  Danbury,  Conn.  Died  July  21, 
1903. 

73  Miller,  James  Edmond,  Danbury,  Conn.  Died  June 
29,  1902. 

KEENLY,  ALEXANDER,  Jr.     Manchester,  Conn. 

Private  Captain  Timothy  Cheney's  Company  of  Hartford  in  the 
Lexington  Alarm,  April,  1775. 

("Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  13.) 

92  Fitz-Gerald,  Ransom  Ney.  Hartford,  Conn.  Died 
September  3,  1905. 

KILBY,  JOHN.     Wethersfield,  Conn.      1 760-1 842. 

Private,  1 777-1 778,  "  Captain  Hezekiah  Wells'  Company  of 
Infantry  on  foot,"  two  months;  eight  months  in  Captain  Wat- 
son's Company,  Colonel  Samuel  B.  Wells'  Regiment;  one 
month  in  Rhode  Island,  Captain  Bissell's  Company,  August 
and  September,  1778. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  249,  531, 
652,  659.     Pension  31798.) 

208  Merritt,  Fred  Marshall,  West  Hartford,  Conn. 

206  Merritt,  George  Prescott,  Hartford,  Conn. 

207  Merritt,  George  Sumner,   Hartford,  Conn. 

209  Merritt,  Harry  Clayton,  Hartford,  Conn. 

KIRTLAND,  MARTIN.     1735 .     Saybrook,  Conn. 

Lieutenant  Ninth  Company,  Colonel  Parson's  Sixth  Regiment, 
from  May  i,  1775  to  December  18,  1775;  Captain  Sixth 
Regiment  at  New  London,  February  28,  1777. 


ROSTER  OF  ANCESTORS  AND  DESCENDANTS.  65 

("Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  73,  77, 
206.) 

154  Pratt,  Charles  William,  Hartford,  Conn. 

153  Pratt,  Edward  Burt,  Hartford,  Conn. 

KIRTLAND,  NATHAN.     Saybrook,  Conn.      1 763-1 844. 

Enlisted  at  Saybrook,  Conn.,  August,  1779,  three  months  Private, 
Captain  EHsha  Chapman's  Company,  Colonel  Worthington's 
Connecticut  Regiment;  enlisted  June,  1780,  and  served  one 
year  in  Captain  Adam  Shapley's  Company,  Colonel  Ledyard's 
Connecticut  Regiment. 

(Records  Bureau  of  Pensions,  Department  of  Interior 
Survivors'  file  17526,  Revolutionary  War.) 

187  BusHNELL,  William  Redfield,  Old  Saybrook,  Conn. 

KNAPP,  HEZEKIAH.      1749-1840.     Stamford,  Conn. 

Private  Captain  Timothy  Lockwood's  Company,  Colonel  John 
Mead's  Regiment;  enlisted  in  July,  1778;  served  eighteen 
months;  served  as  guard  at  Greenwich,  Conn. 

(Statement  of  Department  of  the  Interior,  Bureau  of 
Pensions,  on  file  vs^ith  application.) 

loi   JuDD,  William  Hawley,  Stamford,  Conn. 

KNAPP,  JOSHUA.     Greenwich,  Conn. 

Private  Captain  Joseph  Hubby's  Company,  Ninth  Regiment  Con- 
necticut Militia,  Colonel  John  Meade;  enlisted  November  11, 
1776;  discharged  January  11,   1777. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  491 ;  State- 
ment of  Record  and  Pension  Office,  War  Department,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  on  file  with  application.) 

114  Knapp,  Augustus,  Greenwich,  Conn, 

195  Knapp,  Wilmer  Augustus,  Portchester,  N.  Y. 

LAWRENCE,    JONATHAN,     Brigade-Major. 

1802, 

Member  New  York  Provincial  Congress,  1775-1777;  Brigade- 
Major  Queens  County,  (New  York)  Militia,  1775;  Lieuten- 


66  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

ant  Captain  Nathaniel  Tomm's  Company,  Colonel  William 
Malcolm's  Regiment  Additional  Continental  Infantry,  Janu- 
ary lo,  1777-April  22,  1779;  Captain  Lieutenant-Colonel  H. 
K.  Van  Rensselaer's  Regiment  New  York  Levies,  1779;  Cap- 
tain Colonel  John  Harper's  Regiment  New  York  Levies,  May 
ii-November  30,  1780;  Captain  Sappers  and  Miners,  June 
12,  1 78 1 -November  25,  1782. 

("  Civil  List,  State  of  New  York,"  Series  1889-91,  pages 
453-4;  "Archives  of  the  State  of  New  York,"  Volume  i, 
pages  4,  240,  256,  257,  286,  413.) 

Hamilton,  Alexander,   Reverend.     Founder.     Dover 

Plains,  N.  Y. 
Wayne,    Henry    N.,    Reverend.     Founder.     Armonk, 

N.  Y. 

LINCOLN,  STEPHEN.     1751-1840. 

Private  August,  1778-February,  1779,  in  the  Rhode  Island  cam- 
paign, in  which  General  John  Sullivan  attempted,  unsuccess- 
fully, the  siege  of  Newport. 

(Records  of  Oakham,  Mass.;  certificate  of  Jesse  Allen, 
Town  Clerk,  on  file.) 
50  Lincoln,  George    Francis,    Hartford,    Conn.     Died 

July  23,  1903. 
145  Lincoln,  Frederick  Miles,  Hartford,  Conn. 

LINN,  JOSEPH.     1725-1800.     Somerset  Co.,  N.  Y. 

Adjutant  Second  Regiment,  Sussex  County,  N.  J.,  throughout 
the  Revolutionary  War.  This  Regiment  was  in  service  from 
June  14,  1776,  until  September,  1776,  part  of  Kurd's 
Brigade. 

(Official   Register  Officers  and  Men  of  New  Jersey  in 
Revolutionary  War,  pages  347,  372,  332,  336,  337,  338,  352, 
353,  354,  359,  393-) 
201  Linn,  Edgar  Chapin,  Hartford,  Conn. 
204  Fuller,  Adrian  Martin,  Hartford,  Conn. 

LYMAN,  ELIHU,  Ensign.     1760 . 

Ensign  Captain  Elihu  Hubbard's  Company  Seventeenth  Conti- 
nental    Regiment,     Colonel     Jedediah     Huntington,     1776; 


ROSTER  OF  ANCESTORS  AND  DESCENDANTS.  67 

wounded  and  taken  prisoner  in  action  at  Long  Island  Au- 
gust 27,  1776;  exchanged  May,  1778;  member  Society  of  the 
Cincinnati. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  lOi,  376; 
"State  Records  of  Connecticut,"  Volume  i,  page  258;  Vol- 
ume 2,  page  51.) 

Sanford^  George  Bliss^  Lieutenant-Colonel  United 
States  Army.  Founder  Connecticut  Society  Sons  of 
the  Revolution.     Died  July  13,  1908. 

Sanford,  William  Henry^  Stamford,  Conn.    Founder. 

LYON,  JOSIAH. 1829. 

Private  May  10,  1775,  to  December  17,  1775,  Captain  James 
Chapman's  Company,  Colonel  Samuel  Holden  Parsons,  Sixth 
Regiment  of  Continental  troops;  Private  September  8,  1776, 
to  November  2,  1776,  Captain  Keyes'  Company,  Major 
Backus'  Regiment  of  Light  Horse;  Private  August  24,  1777, 
to  October  30,  1777,  Captain  Amos  Jones'  Company,  Colonel 
Jonathan  Latimer's  Regiment. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  75,  478, 
506.) 

124  Parker,  Francis  Hubert,  Hartford,  Conn. 

LYON,  ROGER.     1715-1797. 

Private,  Colonel  Thomas  Thomas'  Regiment,  Westchester 
County,  New  York,  1779. 

(Statement  of  Record  and  Pension  Office,  War  Depart- 
ment, Washington,  D.  C,  on  file  with  application.) 

112  Knapp,  Edwin  A.,  Greenwich,  Conn.     Died  April  17, 
1907. 

LYON,  SAMUEL. 

Private  Captain  Caleb  Lawrence's  Company,  Second  Regiment, 
Westchester  County,  New  York,  September,  1779,  Colonel 
Thomas  Thomas  commanding;  Private  Captain  Richard  Sack- 
ett's  Company,  January,  1781. 

(MS.  Volume  "Treasurer's  Certificates"  of  New  York 
State,  Volume  9,  page  29;  Volume  3,  page  7.) 


68-  '  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

112  Knapp,   Edwin   Augustus,   Greenwich,   Conn.     Died 
April  17,  1907. 

MACOMBER,  HENRY.     Taunton,  Mass. 

Private  Captain  Zebedee  Redding's  Company,  Colonel  Josiah 
Whitney's  Regiment,  service  from  four  days  preceding  March 
to  November  i,  1776,  five  months,  13  days..  Volume  X,  page 
126;  Colonel  Henry  Sherburne's  Regiment,  August  2,  1777 
to  December  31,  1779;  Captain  Hunt's  Company,  Colonel 
Jackson's  Regiment,  January  i,  1780  to  August  2,  1780. 

("  Massachusetts  Soldiers  and  Sailors  of  the  Revolution- 
ary War,"  Volume  X,  pages  119,  458,  573.) 

203  Macomber,  Frank  Grant,  Hartford,  Conn. 

MACOMBER,  REUBEN.     Taunton,  Mass.     1760-1845. 

Private,  Captain  Oliver  Soper,  Colonel  Joseph  Read's  Regiment, 
Continental  Army,  February  to  August,   1776. 

("  Massachusetts  Soldiers  and  Sailors  of  the  Revolution- 
ary War,"  Volume  X,  page  123.) 

203  Macomber,  Frank  Grant,  Hartford,  Conn. 
MARVIN,  BENJAMIN.     1737-1822. 

Lieutenant  Captain  Griffiin's  Company,  Third  New  York  Regi- 
ment, June  29,  1775;  Captain  in  Fourth  New  York  Regi- 
ment; resigned  April  23,  1778. 

(New  York  Archives,  "  New  York  in  the  Revolution," 
by  Berthold  Fernow,  Volume  i,  page  213;  "  Marvin  Geneal- 
ogy," 1635-1904,  page  358,  par.  43.) 

181  Kinsman,  Edwin  Center,  Rocky  Hill,  Conn. 

MATHER,  JOSEPH,  Captain.     1753-1840. 

Private  First  Company,  Captain-Lieutenant  Sylvanus  Brown, 
Fifth  Connecticut  Continental  Regiment,  Colonel  David 
Waterbury,  May  9-December  10,  1775;  Private  Eleventh 
Company,  Captain  Jonathan  Bell,  Ninth  Regiment  Connecti- 
cut Militia,  Lieutenant-Colonel  John  Mead  commanding;  in 


ROSTER  OF  ANCESTORS  AMD  DESCENDANTS.  69 

service  at  New  York  August  13-September  16,  1776;  Private 
same  company,  in  service  on  the  Westchester  border  October 
24-December  24,  1776;  Private  same  company,  Captain  Eli 
Reed,  in  service  on  the  Westchester  border  December  28, 
1776-January  8,  1777;  served  in  same  company  three  months; 
Sergeant  same  company,  "  Captain  "  Nathaniel  Slason,  eight 
months  in  service,  1779;  promoted  Ensign;  in  service  July, 
1780;  promoted  Captain;  six  months  in  service,  1781. 

("Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  64,  456, 
488,  586,  619,  650;  his  application  for  the  pension  which  he 
received;  copy  of  statement  of  Wm.  Lochren,  Commissioner 
of  Pensions,  on  file.) 

23  Street,  Frederick  D.,  Darien,  Conn.     Died  September 
26,  1911. 

MATHER,  MOSES,  D.D,  Rev.     1719-1806. 

Taken  prisoner  with  the  congregation  of  the  church  at  Middle- 
sex July  22,  1 78 1,  and  confined  in  the  Provost  prison,  New 
York. 

("  Pictorial  Field-Book  of  the  Revolution,"  Benson 
J.  Lossing,  Volume  i,  page  414;  "Poetical  Relation,"  Peter 
St.  John.) 

23  Street,  Frederick  D.,  Darien,  Conn.     Died  September 
26,  1911. 

MILES,  BENJAMIN.     1724-1776. 

Private  Captain  Adam  Wheeler's  Company,  Colonel  Ephraim 
Doolittle's  Regiment ;  was  in  camp  at  Charlestown  and  Win- 
ter Hill  in  1775. 

("  Massachusetts    Soldiers    and    Sailors    of    the    Revolu- 
tionary War,"  Volume  X,  page   731.     Year   Book,    1897-9. 
"  Connecticut   Society,   Sons  of  American   Revolution,"   page 
73I-) 
145  Lincoln,  Frederick  Miles,  Hartford,  Conn. 

MILLER,  ELIJAH.      1725-1776. 

Served  as  Adjutant  in  the  Regiment  of  Minute-Men  of  West- 
chester County,  N.  Y.,  commanded  by  Colonel  Samuel  Drake 


70  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

in  the  year  1775;  his  Commission  was  dated  Oct.  27,  1775; 
Served  as  First  Lieutenant,  Captain  Thomas'  Company, 
Colonel  Drake's  Regiment  of  New  York  Militia  at  New 
York,  July,  1776,  and  was  ordered  commissioned  immediately 
by  the  Provincial  Convention,  July  26,  1776. 

("  New  York  in  the  Revolution,"  Volume  i,  page  75. 
"  Journal  of  Provincial  Congress  Convention  and  Committee 
of  Safety  and  Council  of  Safety"   (1842),  p.  526.) 

199  Thomas  L.  Cornell,  New  Haven,  Conn. 


MILLER,  JONATHAN. 

Private  Captain  John  Barnard's  Company,  Colonel  Samuel 
Wyllys'  Regiment;  enlisted  January  10,  1778,  for  the  term  of 
one  year. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  176.) 

107  Clark,  Robert  Moses,  New  Britain,  Conn. 

MORGAN,  WILLIAM  AVERY,  Sergeant.     1754-1842. 

Private  Captain  Isaac  Gallup's  Company,  Tenth  Continental 
Regiment,  Colonel  Samuel  Holden  Parsons,  December  i, 
1775-December,  1776;  was  in  the  battle  of  Long  Island,  and 
during  the  engagement  a  musket  ball  passed  through  his  hat; 
promoted  Sergeant  about  the  time  New  London  was  burned, 
he  was  drafted  and  went  to  that  place  and  served  about  one 
month,  but  under  what  officers  is  not  stated ;  was  one  of  the 
first  to  enter  Fort  Griswold  after  the  massacre, 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  100,  656, 
661;  his  application  for  the  pension  which  he  received;  state- 
ment of  Wm.  Lochren,  Commissioner  of  Pensions,  on  file.) 

34  Bulkeley,  Morgan  Gardner,  Hon.,  Hartford,  Conn. 
Second  President  Connecticut  Society  Sons  of  Revo- 
lution. 

57  Bulkeley,  William  Henry,  Hartford,  Conn.,  Died 
November  7,  1902. 

60  BuLKELEY,  William  Eliphalet  Adams,  Hartford, 
Conn. 


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71 


MORGAN,  ZEDEKIAH.      1744 .    Danbury,  Conn. 

Conductor   of    teams    for   transporting   supplies    from    Danbury, 
Conn.,  to  the  Connecticut  Army,  1779-1781. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  628.) 

8  Morgan,  Daniel  Nash,  Hon.,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Founder  and  the  first  Vice-President  Connecticut 
Society  Sons  of  Revolution. 

MORRIS,  JAMES,  Brevet-Major. . 


Commissioned  June  20,  1776,  Ensign  Fifth  Company,  Captain 
Abraham  Bradley,  Second  Battalion,  Colonel  Fisher  Gay, 
Brigadier-General  James  Wadsworth's  State  Brigade;  com- 
missioned, January  i,  1777,  First  Lieutenant  Fifth  Regiment 
"  Connecticut  Line,"  formation  of  1 777-1 781,  Colonel  Philip 
Burr  Bradley;  taken  prisoner  in  the  Battle  of  Germantown 
October  4,  1777;  exchanged  January  3,  1781 ;  promoted  Cap- 
tain-Lieutenant July  29,  1780;  promoted  Captain  August  22, 
1780;  Captain  Second  Regiment  "  Connecticut  Line,"  forma- 
tion of  1781-1783,  Colonel  Heman  Swift;  detached  from 
Second  Regiment  to  serve  in  Colonel  Alexander  Scammell's 
Light  Infantry  Regiment  May,  1781  ;  served  with  Southern 
Army;  retired  by  consolidations  January  i,  1783;  member 
Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 

("  Colonial  Records  of  Connecticut,"  Volume  15,  page 
426;  "  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  194,  325, 
354.  375,  395.) 

Morris,  Dwight,  Brigadier-General.  One  of  the 
founders  and  the  first  President  of  the  Connecticut 
Society  Sons  of  the  Revolution.  Died  September  26, 
1894- 
Morris,  Robert  Clark,  New  York  City.  A  Founder 
of  the  Connecticut  Society. 

NELSON,  DAVID,  Sr.     1754-1829. 

Private,  Captain  John  Lacey's  Company,  Colonel  Wayne's  Bat- 
talion, Fourth  Pennsylvania  Line. 

("  Pennsylvania  Historical  Society  and  Family  History," 
1869.) 

175  Eldridge,  Frank  Harold,  U.  S.  N.,  Washington,  D.  C. 


-J 2  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

NELSON,  NEHEMIAH.    1758 .    Mendon,    Mass. 

Private  Captain  Tyler's  Company,  Colonel  Read's  Regiment, 
December  10,  1775;  Private  Captain  Gershom  Nelson's  Com- 
pany, July  19,  1776;  Private  Captain  Fennienan's  Company, 
Colonel  Woods'  Regiment,  from  April  18  to  May  7,  1777; 
Private  Captain  Farrar's  Company,  Colonel  Haw's  Regiment, 
Sept.  27  to  Oct.  29,  1777;  Corporal  Captain  Seagrave's  Com- 
pany, Colonel  Woods'  Regiment,  June  19  to  July  12,  1778; 
Private  Captain  Baker's  Company,  Colonel  Haw's  Regiment, 
August  2  to  September  12,  1778. 

("  Massachusetts    Soldiers    and    Sailors    in    Revolution," 
pages  320,  321,  Volume  11.) 

193  Pope,  George,  Hartford,  Conn. 
OSBORN,  NATHANIEL,  Sergeant. . 


Private  Second  Company,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Samuel  Whiting, 
Fifth  Connecticut  Continental  Regiment,  Colonel  David 
Waterbury,  May  lO-November  17,  1775;  re-entered  service; 
Private  Captain  Robert  Walker's  Company,  Colonel  Samuel 
Elmore's  Continental  Regiment,  April  16,  1776;  Sergeant 
Captain  John  Yeates'  Company,  Colonel  Roger  Enos'  Regi- 
ment Connecticut  Militia,  in  service  on  the  Hudson  May  29- 
August  27,  1778;  Sergeant  Corps  of  Sappers  and  Miners,  Sep- 
tember 9,  1 779- 1 783. 

("Connecticut  Men  In  the  Revolution,"  pages  65,   115, 
298,  538;  statement  of  Edgar  B.  Hoyt,  on  file.) 

13  HoYT,  HuESTED    W.    R.,    Colonel,    Greenwich,    Conn. 

Died  April  8,   1894. 
12  Hoyt,  Leigh    Richmond,    Lyons    Plains,    Conn.      A 

Founder  of  the  Connecticut  Society.     Died  July  25, 

1903. 

PALMES,  SAMUEL,  East  Haddam,  Conn.      I755:.i849. 

Private,  enlisted  March  i,  1776,  Captain  Joseph  Jewett's  Com- 
pany, Colonel  Jedediah  Huntington's  Connecticut  Regiment, 
served  about  two  weeks,  was  transferred  to  Captain  Christo- 
pher Darrow's  Company,  Colonel  Samuel  H.  Parson's  Regi- 
ment and  served  until  February,  1777;  August,  1779,  enlisted 
as  private  in  Captain  Stephen  Betts'  Company,  Colonel  Isaac 


ROSTER  OF  ANCESTORS  AND  DESCENDANTS.  73 

Sherman's  Connecticut  Regiment,  and  served  until  February, 
1780,  and  was  honorably  discharged  at  Morristown,  New 
Jersey. 

(United  States  Bureau  of  Pensions,  Record  dated  Feb- 
ruary, 1896.) 

192  Blydenburg,    Ralph    Arthur,    Middletown,    Conn. 
Died  October  10,  191 3. 

PARK,  BENJAMIN.     Westerly,  R.  I.      1735-1775. 

Captain  of  Stonington,  Connecticut  Company,  which  marched  to 
Boston,  April  19,  1775,  Lexington  Alarm;  Captain  of  Rhode 
Island  Militia  and  mortally  wounded  at  the  Battle  of  Bunker 
Hill. 

("Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  22; 
"  Society  Sons  of  the  Revolution  Year  Book,"  1899,  page  505; 
"  Denison's  Westerly,"  page  no;  74  "  Narragansett  Hist. 
Register,"  Volume  i,  page  217;  "Drake's  Dictionary  of 
American  Biography,"  page  678.) 

2CX)  Welcher,  Lester  Groome,  Hartford,  Conn. 
PARKER,  JOHN.     1732-1806. 

Private  Captain  Eliphalet  Holmes'  Company  of  Minute  Men 
raised  in  East  Haddam,  May,  1776;  Private  June,  1776,  to 
December  25,  1776,  Captain  Eliphalet  Holmes'  Company, 
Fourth  Battalion,  Colonel  Wadsworth's  Brigade;  was  in 
battle  at  White  Plains;  Private  August  3,  1778,  to  September, 
1778,  in  Captain  Seth  W.  Holmes'  Company,  under  Brig- 
adier-General John  Tyler;  Private  November  8,  1780,  to 
January  6,  1781,  Captain  Z.  Hungerford's  Company,  Colonel 
Samuel  McLellan's  Regiment,  at  New  London  and  Groton. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  404,  532, 
580,  611.) 

124  Parker,  Francis  Hubert,  Hartford,  Conn. 
PARKER,  JOHN.     1758-1839. 

Private  Captain  Martin  Kirtland's  Company,  Colonel  Erastus 
Wolcott's    Regiment,    New    London,    Conn.,    February    28, 


74  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

1777;  Private  Captain  Martin  Kirtland's  Company,  Colonel 
R.  J.  Meigs'  Regiment,  May  20,  1777,  to  May  20,  1780. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  613,  636; 
and  certificate  of  Commissioner  of  Pensions. ) 

125  Parker,  John  Marvin,  Jr.,  Hartford,  Conn. 
PEASE,  SHARON.     1746 . 

Private  Captain  Loomis'  Company,  Major  Backus'  Regiment  of 
Light  Horse,  1776,  ordered  to  army  near  New  York;  also 
in  detachment  of  Third  Troop  in  Fourth  Regiment  of  Light 
Horse,  and  served  as  an  escort  to  Convention  Troops  (pris- 
oners of  Burgoyne's  army)  passing  through  Connecticut  No- 
vember, 1778, 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  479,  546; 
Allen's  "  History  of  Enfield,"  page  2495.) 

145  Lincoln,  Frederick  Miles,  Hartford,  Conn. 

POND,  CHARLES,  Captain.     1744-1832. 

Ensign  Captain  Perrit's  Company,  Colonel  Webb's  Regiment,  at 
siege  of  Boston;  Lieutenant,  1776;  June,  1776,  in  command  of 
armed  sloop  Schuyler;  re-captured  prizes  taken  by  the  Eng- 
lish; Captain  Sixth  Regiment  "Connecticut  Line,"  formation 
of  1 777- 1 78 1,  Colonel  William  Douglass,  January  i,  1777; 
resigned  April  20,  1779;  Captain  brig-of-war  New  Defense, 
1779;  taken  prisoner  and  confined  on  prison  ship  Jersey. 

("  Colonial  Records  of  Connecticut,"  Volume  15,  page 
94;  "  Record  of  Connecticut  Men  in  the  War  of  the  Revolu- 
tion," pages  83,  104,  206,  376;  "American  Archives,"  fourth 
series.  Volume  6,  pages  974,  991 ;  "  Thirty-six  Voyages," 
George  Coggeshall,  New  York,  1858,  pages  26,  27,  list  of 
prisoners  on  ship  Jersey.) 

24  Baldwin  Wilson  Leslie,  Stamford,  Conn. 

I  Pond,  Nathan  Gillette.     Founder.     Died  July  29, 
1894- 

POPE,  FREDERICK.     1733-18 12.     Stoughton,  Mass. 

Private  Captain  Peter  Talbot's  Company,  Stoughton,  Massachu- 
setts Militia,  Lexington  Alarm,  April  19,  1775;  Colonel  Paul 


ROSTER  OF  ANCESTORS  AND  DESCENDANTS.  75 

D.  Sargent's  Massachusetts  Continental  Regiment,  June  23  to 
December,  1775;  Major  in  Colonel  John  Robinson's  Bat- 
talion, Massachusetts  Militia,  raised  for  defense  of  Boston 
Harbor,  May  8,  1777,  promoted  March  2,  1778  to  Lieutenant- 
Colonel,  January  i,   1779;  served  at  Rhode  Island. 

("  Hist.  Norfolk  Co.  Mass.  Massachusetts  Military 
Documents,"  Volume  28;  "  Book  of  Military  Officers,"  page 
64;  "  Massachusetts  Soldiers  and  Sailors  in  Revolution,"  Vol- 
ume 12,  page  567,  Volume  28,  page  64. 

193  Pope,  George,  Hartford,  Conn. 

102  Pope,  Albert  Linder,  Hartford,  Conn. 

PROVOST,  SAMUEL.     1740- 183 5 

Private  Captain  Bell's  Company,  Ninth  Regiment  Connecticut 
Militia,  under  General  Wooster,  1776-1777;  pensioner  under 
the  Act  of  1832. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  490,  651.) 
69  Provost,  Howard  G.,  D.D.S.,  West  Winsted,  Conn. 

PUTNAM,  DANIEL.     1759-1831. 

Aide-de-Camp  with  rank  of  Major  to  his  father,  Major-General 
Putnam,  1 776-1 780;  First  Lieutenant  Colonel  Durkee's  Regi- 
ment, Twentieth  Continentals,  1776. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  97,  106, 
142,  376,  636.) 

134  BiGELOw,  Henry  Waite,  Allston,  Mass. 

PUTNAM,  ISRAEL,  Major-General.      17 18-1790. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  Lexington  Alarm,  April,  1775;  appointed  by 
the  Legislature  at  the  special  April  session,  1775,  Second  Brig- 
adier-General of  the  Regiments  then  ordered  for  the  safety 
and  defense  of  the  Colony;  also  at  same  time,  appointed  Col- 
onel of  the  Third  Regiment,  commission  dated  May  i,  1775; 
Major-General  Continental  Army,  1776;  Major-General 
Continental  Army,  1 777-1 781;  incapacitated  December,  1779; 
borne  on  the  rolls  with  full  pay  to  close  of  the  war,  June, 
1783;  retired  under  Acts  of  Congress  as  half-pay  officer  for 
life. 


76  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

{"  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  20,  36, 
37,  53,  58,  95,  97,  129,  131,  141,  312,  436;  "Life  of  Israel 
Putnam,"  by  J.  N.  Tarbox ;  "  Life  of  Israel  Putnam,"  by 
Mack,  Andrus  and  Woodruff,  Ithaca,  1839.) 

132  Brinley,  Daniel  Putnam,  Riverside,  Conn. 
134  BiGELOw^  Henry  Waite,  Allston,  Mass. 

REDFIELD,  CONSTANT.  Killingworth,  Conn.  1753- 
1839- 
Private,  Captain  Bezaleel  Bristol's  Company,  Second  Regiment, 
Connecticut;  Private  Captain  Samuel  Gale's  Company,  Col- 
onel Sage,  February,  1776;  Private,  Captain  Martin  Lord's 
Company,  Colonel  Graves,  August,  1776;  Private,  Captain 
Timothy  Munger's  Company,  Colonel  Brown,  1778;  Private, 
Captain  Dan  Collins'  Company,  Colonel  Richards,  1779. 

("Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  551-654. 
Bureau  of  Pensioners.) 

149  Bradley,  Seymour  Percy,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

178  Cook,  Franklin  Marshall,  Branford,  Conn. 

ROGERS,  ICHABOD.     1754-1821. 

Private,  enlisted  June  18,  1776,  Captain  Smith's  Company,  Col- 
onel Bradley's  Battalion;  discharged  December  28,  1776. 

(Adjutant-General's  Report  of  Connecticut  Men  in  the 
the  Revolution,  pages  420,  621.) 

120  Rogers,  Nathaniel  Burton,  Danbury,  Conn. 

ROWELL,  SAMUEL.     1 754-1 830. 

Private,  enlisted  1774  from  Londonderry,  New  Hampshire,  Cap- 
tain Henry  Drummond,  Colonel  John  Stark's  Regiment ; 
engaged  in  Battle  of  Bunker  Hill;  August,  1775,  with  Eighth 
Company,  Colonel  John  Stark's  Regiment,  under  Colonel 
Benedict  Arnold,  went  to  Quebec;  enlisted  November  29, 
1775,  Captain  Titcomb's  Company,  Colonel  Poor's  Regi- 
ment; July  II,  1776,  Captain  John  Nesmuth's  Company,  Col- 
onel Wingate's  Regiment,  at  Brooklyn  Heights;  July  20th. 
Captain  Daniel  Reynold's  Company,  Colonel  Moses  Nichols' 


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77 


Regiment,  Stark's  Brigade,  at  Battle  of  Bennington;  dis- 
charged September  28,  1777;  enlisted  April  28,  1778,  Colonel 
Moses  Keiley's  Regiment,  Sullivan's  Brigade,  at  Fishkill-on- 
the-Hudson;  enlisted  April,  1780,  Captain  Nathaniel  Hutch- 
ins'  Company,  Colonel  Joseph  Cilley's  First  New  Hampshire 
Regiment,  and  marched  to  West  Point;  discharged  March, 
1781. 

(New  Hampshire  Records;  Records  Pension  Bureau, 
Washington,  D.  C.) 

135  RowELL,  Charles  Emery,  Stamford,  Conn. 

137  RowELL,  Edward  Everett,  Jr.,  Stamford,  Conn. 

SANFORD,  ELIHU,  Sergeant.      1759-1839. 

Corporal  Captain  David  Smith's  Company,  Eighth  Regiment 
"  Connecticut  Line,"  formation  of  1 777-1 781,  Colonel  John 
Chandler,  February  16,  1777;  promoted  Sergeant  May  27, 
1778;  Sergeant  Captain  David  Dorrance's  Company,  Fifth 
Regiment  "Connecticut  Line,"  formation  of  1781-1783, 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Isaac  Sherman,  January  i -December  31, 
1781. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  231,  348, 
637.) 

Sanford,  William  Henry,  Stamford,  Conn.  Founder 
of  Connecticut  Society. 

Sanford,  George  Bliss,  Lieutenant-Colonel  United 
States  Army.  Litchfield,  Conn.  A  Founder  of  the 
Connecticut  Society  Sons  of  the  Revolution.  Died 
July  13,  1908. 

SCHUYLER,  PHILIP,  Major-General.      1 733-1 804. 

Major-General  Continental  Army,  June  ig,  1775;  resigned  April 
19)  1779;  member  Continental  Congress,  1775-1781;  member 
New  York  Provincial  Convention,  April  20,  1775;  member 
New  York  Senate,  1780- 1784;  member  Society  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati. 

("  Heitman's  Register  of  Officers  in  the  Continental 
Army,"  page  358;  "Archives  of  the  State  of  New  York," 
Volume  I,  pages  8,  15,  etc.) 


78  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

Hamilton,  Alexander,   Reverend.     Founder.     Dover 
Plains,  N.  Y. 

SEWARD,  WILLIAM,  Reverend.     1747-1822. 

Chaplain  in  Colonel  David  Waterbury's  Regiment  in  1775  at 
Stillwater,  N.  Y.  (His  name  is  found  in  a  list  of  Sick  Bills 
of  1775,  being  itemized  accounts  of  the  expenses  of  individual 
soldiers.) 

("  Connecticut  Historical  Society  Collections,"  Volume 
VIII,  page  19;  "Biographical  Sketches  of  Yale  Gradu- 
ates," by   Dexter,  Volume  III.) 

150  Seward,  William,  Jr.,  Racine,  Wis. 

SEXTON,  GEORGE.     1756-1815.     Manchester,  Vt. 

Was  appointed  or  enlisted  and  served  as  Ensign,  March  25,  1777, 
to  September  21,  1778,  Colonel  Seth  Warner's  Regiment  of 
Vermont;  Lieutenant  September  28,  1778,  to  August  i,  1780, 
Colonel  Seth  Warner's  Regiment  of  Vermont;  Captain 
August  20,  1 78 1,  to  November  25,  1781,  Colonel  Ebenezer 
Walbridge's  Regiment  of  Vermont;  Captain  April  i,  1782, 
to  October  22,  1782,  Major  Gideon  Bronson's  Regiment  of 
Vermont,  and  engaged  in  the  Battles  of  Bennington  and  Sara- 
toga. 

(Affidavits  of  Commissioner  of  Bureau  of  Pensions, 
Washington,  D.  C. ;  Chief  of  Bureau  of  Rolls  and 
Library,  Department  of  State,  Washington,  D.  C. ;  Chief  of 
Record  and  Pension  Office  of  Washington,  D.  C. ;  Adjutant- 
General  of  the  State  of  Vermont.) 

133  Whittelsey,  Charles  Barney,  Hartford,  Conn. 
SHERMAN,  ROGER.     1721-1793. 

Assistant,  May,  1774-May,  1780;  member  Continental  Con- 
gress, 1 774-1 780;  member  of  Committee  appointed  to  prepare 
the  Declaration  of  Independence  and  signer  of  the  same; 
member  Connecticut  Council  of  Safety,  May,  1774-May, 
1780;  delegate  to  the  Springfield  Convention,  July,  1777; 
delegate  to  the  New  Haven  Convention,  January,  1778;  dele- 
gate to  the  Philadelphia  Convention,  January,  1780. 


ROSTER  OF  ANCESTORS  AND  DESCENDANTS.  79 

("American  Archives,"  Volume  i,  pages  554,  895; 
"  Journals  of  Congress,"  Volume  2,  pages  206,  207,  245 ; 
"  Colonial  Records  of  Connecticut,"  Volume  14,  pages  254, 
324;  Volume  15,  pages  4,  136,  272;  "  State  Records  of  Con- 
necticut," Volume  I,  pages  10,  221,  253,  355,  417,  477,  600, 
601,  609,  610,  612;  Volume  2,  pages  3,  18,  134,  251,  287, 
462,  579.) 

46  Baldwin,  Henry,  New  Haven,  Conn.     Died  January 
2,  1905. 


SHERV^OOD,  DANIEL,  2D.     1735-1819. 

Private  Eighth  Company,  Captain  Jonathan  Dimon,  Fourth 
Regiment  Connecticut  Militia,  Colonel  Gold  Selleck  Silli- 
man.  May,  1776;  in  service  in  Fairfield  Coast  Guard  Novem- 
ber, 7,  1776;  Clerk  Fairfield  Coast  Guard,  Captain  George 
Burr,  in  service  at  Fairfield  August  7,  1777,  and  at  Peekskill 
under  Lieutenant-Colonel  Jonathan  Dimon,  October  5-14, 
1777. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  521,  616; 
MS.  Records  Fairfield  Coast  Guard  in  Pequot  Library,  South- 
port;  MS.  muster  roll  and  order  in  possession  of  Cyrus  Brad- 
ley, Southport.) 

Bradley,    Cyrus    Sherwood,    Southport,    Conn.      A 
Founder  of  the  Connecticut  Society. 

43  Rowland,  Herbert  Samuel,  Waterbury,  Conn. 

6  Sherwood,    Simon    Couch,    Southport,    Conn.     Died 
March,  1906. 


SIBLEY,  GIDEON.     Sutton,  Mass.      1750-1809. 

Marched  to  Boston  at  the  Lexington  Alarm,   1775,  and  served 
as  private  in  latter  short  terms. 

("  Massachusetts  Soldiers  and  Sailors  in  the  Revolution  " 
and  letter  of  Secretary  Commonwealth  Massachusetts,  No- 
vember 6,  1903.) 

161  Tourtellotte,  James  Erskine,  Middletown,  Conn. 


8o  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

SMITH,  ELIPHALET.     1761-1836. 

Private  Captain  Beardsley's  Company  Fairfield  Coast  Guard, 
September- December,  1779;  Private  Sixth  Company,  Captain 
Ebenezer  Morehouse,  Fourth  Regiment  Connecticut  Militia, 
Major  Elijah  Abel,  in  service  September,  1780-January,  1781 ; 
Private  Captain  Daniel  Sturges'  Company  Fairfield  Coast 
Guard  April-August,  1782. 

("Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  651;  his 
application  for  the  pension  w^hich  he  received;  statement  of 
Wm.  Lochren,  Commissioner  of  Pensions,  on  file.) 

44  HoYT,  Thomas  Russell,  Danbury,  Conn.     Died  June 
27,  1896. 

SMITH,  PHINEAS,  Captain.      17 17-1789. 

Captain  Colonel  Porter's  Regiment  Massachusetts  Troops  Lex- 
ington Alarm,  April,  1775;  Captain  Fourth  Hampshire 
County  Regiment  Massachusetts  Militia,  1776;  Captain 
Colonel  Ruggles  Woodbridge's  Regiment  Bennington  Alarm, 
August  17-21,  1777. 

("  Records  State  of  Massachusetts,"  Volume  13,  page 
loi ;  Volume  42,  page  83;  Volume  23,  page  75;  Volume  176, 
page  460  1-2;  statement  of  Wm.  M.  Olin,  Secretary  of  the 
State  of  Massachusetts,  on  file.) 

70  Hadsell,  G.  Arthur,  U.  S.  A.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

STOWE,  SAMUEL,  Midshipman.     1758-1830. 

Midshipman  on  Continental  Frigate  Trumbull,  Dudley  Salton- 
stall  Commander,  December  15,  1776-December  15,  1777; 
Midshipman  on  State  Man-of-War  Oliver  Cromwell,  Cap- 
tain William  Coit,  January  20-March  16,  1778. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  598,  596.) 

French,  William  Freeman,  M.D.,  Noroton,  Conn. 
A  Founder  of  the  Connecticut  Society.  Died  Janu- 
ary 27,  1898. 

STREMBECK,  JACOB.     1755-1841. 

Drummer  and  Private,  Colonel  Thomas  Proctor's  Fourth  Artil- 
lery, Pennsylvania  Line ;  Ensign  Captain  John  G.  Eyers  Com- 


ROSTER  OF  ANCESTORS  AND  DESCENDANTS.  8l 

pany,  Third  Regiment  Foot,  Major  Richard  Salter;  com- 
missioned February  4,  1781;  1775  enlisted  First  Company 
Artillery,  Captain  Thomas  Proctor. 

("Second  Series  Pennsylvania  Archives,"  page  180; 
"  Pension  Roll,"  Volume  2,  page  178-514;  "  History  of  Jacob 
Strembeck  "   at  Pension  Office,  Washington,   D.   C. 

Allen,  Louis  Joseph,  U.  S.  N.,  Founder.  Died 
September,   1905. 

TALCOTT,    ABRAHAM.     Glastonbury,    Conn.      1757- 
1839- 

Private  in  Captain  Jonathan  Hale's  Company  of  Colonel  Wol- 
cott's  State  Continental  Regiment  before  Boston  from  Decem- 
ber, 1775,  to  February,  1776.  This  Regiment  formed  a  part 
of  the  detachment  from  the  army  that  occupied  Boston  after 
the  enemy  evacuated  the  town. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  385,  652.) 
179  Fenn,  Edward  Hart,  Wethersfield,  Conn. 

THORP,  ELIPHALET,  Captain.      1740-1795. 

Member  Fairfield  Committee  of  Inspection,  elected  December 
28,  1775;  Captain  Fourth  Company,  Fourth  Regiment  Con- 
necticut Militia,  Colonel  Samuel  Whiting,  May,  1776 
.  .  .  ;  In  service  at  PeeksklU,  October  5-31,  1777;  Cap- 
tain in  the  First  Battalion  Connecticut  State  Troops,  Colonel 
Samuel  Whiting,  November,  1776-March,  1777. 

("Colonial  Records  of  Connecticut,"  Volume  15,  page 
341;  "State  Records  of  Connecticut,"  Volume  i,  page  67; 
"  Connecticut  Men  In  the  Revolution,"  pages  424,  515;  MS. 
Town  Records  of  Fairfield.) 

43  Rowland,  Herbert  Samuel,  Waterbury,  Conn. 
TREMAN,  ABNER.     1761-1823. 

Private  Second  Regiment  New  York,  Colonel  Philip  Van  Cort- 
landt  commanding;  he  was  discharged  on  June  8,  1783,  and 
was  accredited  with  five  years  and  two  months'  actual  service; 
he,  also,  at  the  time  of  his  discharge,  was  honored  with  a 
badge  of  merit  for  three  years'  faithful  service;  he  was  one 
6 


82  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

of  twenty  men  selected  personally  by  General  George  Wash- 
ington to  clear  away  the  abatis  that  obstructed  the  advance 
on  Stony  Point,  which  was  captured  by  the  American  troops 
on  the  night  of  July  15,  1779;  he  was  with  Sullivan's  army 
in  the  Battle  of  Chemung,  August  29,  1779;  received  bounty 
of  600  acres  of  land  in  the  present  town  of  Trumansburg, 
N.  Y. 

(See  Department  of   the  Interior,   Bureau  ef   Pensions; 
copy  of  certificate  on  file  with  application.) 

96  Wyckoff,  Frank  Treman.     Died  February  19,  1903. 
TUBES,  DANIEL.     1736 . 

Private    Captain    Jonathan    Hale's    Company,    Colonel    Erastus 
Wolcott's  Regiment,  December,   1775-February,  1776. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  385.) 
86  Tubes,  William  Henry,  Hartford,  Conn.    Died . 


TURNER,  ISAAC.      1754-1829.     New  London,  Conn. 

Commissioned  Lieutenant  January  i,  1777,  Captain  Robert 
Lewis'  Company,  Second  Regiment,  Connecticut  Line,  Colonel 
Charles  Webb;  resigned  May  15,  1778. 

("  Records  State  of  Connecticut,"  1776- 1778,  Volume  I, 
page  191  ;  "  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  157- 
158;  Heitman's  Register,  p.  406;  "Year  Book  Connecticut 
S.  A.  R.,"  1900-1903,  page  537.) 

172  Walter  St.  George  Harris,  Hartford,  Conn. 

TURNER,  MATTHEW.     1733-1824.    Montville,  Conn. 

Served  in  Captain  George  Markham's  Company,  September,  1781, 
after  Arnold's  Attack  on  New  London. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  58;  "  Year 
Book  Connecticut  S.  A.  R.,"  1900-1903,  page  537;  "  Baker's 
History  of  Montville,"  page  97.) 

172  Walter  St.  George   Harris,   Hartford,  Conn. 

TURPENING,   JACOBUS.     Ulster  Co.,   N.   Y.      1756- 
1836. 


ROSTER  OF  ANCESTORS  AND  DESCENDANTS.  83 

Served  seven  years  in  Revolutionary  War  from  Ulster  County, 
N.  Y. 

(N.  Y.  State  Records.) 

174  HowGATE,     Charles    Wilton,     D.D.S.,     Greenwich, 
Conn. 

USHER,  ROBERT,  M.D.     Chatham,  Conn.     1742-1820. 

Surgeon  Colonel  James  Wadsworth's  Regiment;  served  at  Bos- 
ton January  to  March,  1776. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  386.) 
164  Tyler,  Rollin  Usher,  Tylerville,  Conn. 

WADSWORTH,    REUBEN.      Hartford,    Conn.      1753- 
1836. 

Private;  enlisted  May  5,  1775,  discharged  December  17,  1775^ 
Second  Company,  Captain  Samuel  Wyllis,  Second  Regiment, 
General  Joseph  Spencer;  Sergeant  August  26,  marched,  dis- 
charged November  3,  1777,  Captain  Jonathan  Wadsworth's 
Company,  Colonel  Thaddeus  Cook's  Regiment;  Pensioner 
1832,  Hartford  County. 

("Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  46,  511, 
652.) 

176  Edward  M.  Francis,  Hartford,  Conn. 
WAITE,  RICHARD.     1711-1790. 

Major  Third  Regiment  of  Militia  under  the  general  organiza- 
tion of  1 775-1 783,  being  promoted  from  Captain  February, 
1781. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  page  433.) 

134  BiGELOw,  Henry  Waite,  Allston,  Mass. 

WAKEMAN,  JOHN,  id.     1731-1809. 

Private  Eighth  Company,  Captain  Jonathan  Dimon,  Fourth  Regi- 
ment Connecticut  Militia;  Colonel  Gold  Selleck  Silliman, 
May,  1776;  in  service  in  Fairfield  Coast  Guard  October  28, 
1776;  Private  Fairfield  Coast  Guard,  Captain  George  Burr; 
in  service  at  Peekskill  under  Lieutenant-Colonel  Jonathan 
Dimon  October  5-30,   1777. 


84  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  521,  616; 
MS.  muster  roll  in  possession  of  Cyrus  Sherwood  Bradley, 
Southport ;  MS.  records  Fairfield  Coast  Guard  in  Pequot 
Library,  Southport.) 

Bradley,    Cyrus    Sherwood,    Southport,    Conn.      A 
Founder  of  the  Connecticut  Society. 

9  Wakeman,  Howard  Nichols,  Southport,  Conn. 

WATERBURY,  DAVID,  Brigadier-General.     1722-1801. 

Colonel  Fifth  Connecticut  Continental  Regiment,  1775;  Colonel 
Connecticut  State  Regiment  at  New  York,  February-April, 
1776;  Brigadier-General,  1776;  taken  prisoner  in  the  action 
at  Valcour's  Island,  Lake  Champlain,  October  11,  1776;  ex- 
changed, 1780;  Brigadier-General  Connecticut  State  Brigade, 
1781. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution,"  pages  64,  304, 
387,  389,  564;  "  History  of  Stamford,"  pages  417-423.) 

68  Waterbury,  Harry  Guley,  Stamford,  Conn. 

WEED,  ANANIAS.      1752-1820.     Stamford,  Conn. 

Private,  1775,  Seventh  Company,  Colonel  David  Waterbury's 
Regiment;  Second  Sergeant,  Seventh  Company,  February  25, 
1776,  and  was  the  first  man  to  enter  Montreal;  1776,  Ser- 
geant Colonel  Chas.  Webb's  Regiment;  1779,  Clerk  in  Com- 
missary Department,  and  served  until  1783. 

("  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution.") 

Founder     Riker,  Edward  Wood,  White  Plains,  N.  Y.    A  Founder 
of  the  Connecticut  Society,  Sons  of  the  Revolution. 

WHEELOCK,    SILAS.       1717. .       Worcester    Co., 

Mass. 

Colonel  of  the  Seventh  Worcester  County  Regiment,  which 
marched  to  Cambridge  and  Roxbury  on  the  Lexington 
Alarm,  April  19,  1775. 

("  Massachusetts    Soldiers   and    Sailors    in    Revolution," 
Volume   16,  page  lOii.) 
193  Pope,  George,  Hartford,  Conn. 


ROSTER  OF  ANCESTORS  AND  DESCENDANTS.  85 

WHITTEMORE,  SAMUEL.  Cambridge,  Mass.  1696- 
1793- 
Private  Chariestown  Massachusetts  Minute-Men ;  wounded  at 
the  Battle  of  Lexington.  (He  was  then  nearly  80  years  of 
age).  On  the  retreat  of  the  British  troops  he  was  posted  at 
Menotomy  (part  of  Cambridge)  and  personally  killed  two 
British  soldiers  and  w^as  then  shot  twice  and  bayoneted  six 
or  eight  times  and  left  for  dead ;  he  recovered  and  lived  to  be 
98  years  of  age. 

("  Massachusetts   Archives   and   Certificate.") 
165  Whittemore^  James  Madison,  Hartford,  Conn. 

WILLIAMS,    JOHN,     Col.     Dr.       1752-1806.      Salem, 
N.  Y. 

Three  times  elected  to  Provincial  Congress;  Commissioned  Col- 
onel ;  member  of  convention  when  New  York  State  adopted 
the  Constitution  of  the  United  States;  Senator  and  Congress- 
man, 1777  to  1795;  Congressman,  Salem,  1 792-1 796;  served 
in  the  Revolutionary  War  and  "  drew  pay  due  him  and  his 
regiment  which  turned  out  on  an  alarm  against  the  common 
enemy  for  April  22  to  25,   1778." 

(Original  Records  U.  S.  War  Department,  Adjutant- 
General's  Office;  Certificate  Comptroller,  State  of  New  York; 
Histor}^  of  Salem.) 

188  MowRY,  Allan  McLane,  Greenwich,  N.  Y. 

WOODHULL,  NATHANIEL,  Brigadier-General.    1722- 
1776. 

Colonel  Long  Island  Militia,  1775;  Brigadier-General  same, 
1776;  member  New  York  Provincial  Convention  April  20, 
1775;  member  New  York  Provincial  Congress,  1775- 1776; 
President  of  same,  1776;  taken  prisoner  and  wounded  after 
capture  at  Jamaica,  Long  Island,  August  28,  1776;  and  died 
from  wounds  September  20,   1776. 

(Civil  List,  State  of  New  York,  Series  1889-91,  pages 
113,  452-3;  "Calendar  of  Revolutionary  Papers,"  Albany, 
N.  Y.,  Volume  i,  page  134;  Heitman's  "  Register  of  Officers 
in  Continental  Army,"  page  443 ;  "  Archives  of  the  State  of 
New  York,"  Volume  i,  pages  4,  80,   126.) 


86  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

Hamilton,  Alexander,  Reverend,  Dover,  Plains,  N.  Y. 
Founder. 

Wayne,  Henry  N.,  Reverend,  Armonk,  N,  Y.  Founder. 

YOUNG,  HYATT,  of  Chatham,  Mass.      1775-1782. 

Sergeant  Captain  Thomas  Hamilton's  Company,  raised  for  sea- 
coast  defense,  from  July  7,  1775  to  December  31,  1775; 
Sergeant  Colonel  Shepard's  Massachusetts  Line  Regiment 
from  January  i,  1777  to  February,  1782. 

("  Massachusetts  Soldiers  and  Sailors  in  the  War  of  the 
Revolution.") 

167  Anderson,  Justus  Doane,  Hartford,  Conn. 

YOUNG,  JOSEPH,  of  Chatham,  Mass.      1762 . 

Private  June  19,  1778  to  January  i,  1779,  and  six  months  in 
1780. 

("  Massachusetts  Soldiers  and  Sailors  in  the  War  of  the 
Revolution.") 
167  Anderson,  Justus  Doane,  Hartford,  Conn. 


History  of  the  Origin 


SOCIETY 


SONS   OF  THE   REVOLUTION 


State  of  Connecticut 


ORIGIN  OF  THE  SOCIETY. 


89 


At  a  meeting  of  the  New  York  Society,  Sons  of  the 
Revolution,  the  Executive  Committee  was  requested  to  com- 
municate with  those  members  Hving  in  other  states  urging 
them  to  form  a  State  Society  in  their  respective  states. 
For  the  purpose  of  organizing  such  a  Society  in  the  State  of 
Connecticut,  the  Rev.  Alexander  Hamilton,  of  Lyons  Plains, 
Conn.,  on  the  i6th  day  of  May,  1893,  sent  out  a  notice  of 
a  meeting  to  be  held  on  the  24th  day  of  May  at  one-thirty 
P.  M.,  at  the  Atlantic  Hotel,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

The  Connecticut  members  of  the  New  York  Society  and 
their  friends  were  invited,  and  the  following  gentlemen  were 
present  at  the  meeting. 


Rev.  Henry  N.  Wayne, 
Rev.  Nathaniel  E,  Cornwall, 
Rev.   Henry  M.  Sherman, 
Rev.  Alexander  Hamilton, 
Rev.  Frank  E.  Robbins, 
Mr.  Thomas  B.  Fairchild, 
Mr.  Nathan  G.  Pond, 
Mr.  Cyrus  S.  Bradley, 
Col.  Dwight  Morris, 
Mr.  John  S.  Jones, 
Mr.  Edwin  S.  Robbins, 
Dr.  George  O.  Robbins, 
Mr.  Frank  C.  Dovvd, 
Dr.  Wm.  F.  French, 
Mr.  Leigh  R.  Hoyt, 
Col.  Henry  W.  Wessels, 
Mr.  John  W.  Gulick, 


Westport,  Conn. 
Stratford,  Conn. 
Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Lyons   Plains,   Conn. 
Norwalk,  Conn. 
Stratford,  Conn. 
Milford,  Conn. 
Southport,  Conn. 
Bridgeport,  Conn, 
Westport,  Conn. 
Waterbury,  Conn. 
Waterbury,  Conn, 
Madison,  Conn, 
Noroton,  Conn. 
Lyons  Plains,  Conn. 
Litchfield,  Conn. 
Lyons  Plains,  Conn. 


Colonel  Dwight  Morris  was  elected  Chairman  of  the 
meeting,  and  Cyrus  S.  Bradley  its  Secretary. 

The  Constitution  of  the  New  York  Society,  Sons  of  the 
Revolution,  was  adopted  as  the  Constitution  of  the  Connect- 


90  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

icut  Society,   Sons  of   the    Revolution,   but  certain   amend- 
ments were  made  thereto  to  suit  local  conditions. 

The  following  officers  were  unanimously  elected: 

Col.   Dwight  Morris,  President  pro  tern. 
Col.  Henry  W.  Wessels,  Treasurer  pro  tern. 
Mr.  Cyrus  Bradley,  Secretary  pro  tern. 

The  Meeting  appointed  a  Committee  on  Credentials, 
which  was  composed  of  the  following: 

Rev.  Alexander  Hamilton,  Chairman. 
Mr.  John  S.  Jones. 
Rev.  Henry  N.  Wayne. 

The  second  meeting  of  the  Society  was  held  in  Westport, 
Conn.,  on  the  5th  day  of  September,  1893,  and  the  following 
eligible  gentlemen  were  recommended  as  members. 

Nathan  Gillette  Pond,  Milford,  Conn. 

Howard  Eugene  Gates,  M.D.,  Colorado  Springs,  Col. 

John  Smith  Jones,  Westport,  Conn. 

Chauncey  Smith  Foster,  West  Winsted,  Conn. 
Alexander   Hamilton,    Major- 

General,  U.  S.  A.,  retired,  Lyons  Plains,  Conn. 

Simon  Couch  Sherwood,  Southport,  Conn. 
Rev.      Nathaniel      Ellsworth 

Cornwall,  Stratford,  Conn. 
Hon.    Daniel    Nash    Morgan, 

Treasurer,  U.  S.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Howard  Nickols  Wakeman,  Southport,  Conn. 

Oliver  Taylor  Sherwood,  Southport,  Conn. 

Timothy  Jones,  Danbury,  Conn. 

Leigh  Richmond  Hoyt,  Lyons  Plains,  Conn. 

At  this  meeting  the  following  officers  were  nominated: 

President. 
Col.  Dwight  Morris,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Vice-President. 
Hon.  Daniel  Nash  Morgan,         Washington,  D.  C. 


ORIGIN  OF  THE  SOCIETY. 

Secretary. 
Mr.  Cyrus    Sherwood    Brad- 
ley, Southport,  Conn. 

Treasurer. 
Col.   Henry  Walton  Wessels,     Litchfield,  Conn. 

Registrar. 
Mr.  Nathan  Gillette  Pond,  Milford,  Conn. 

Chaplain. 
Rev.  Alexander  Hamilton,  Lyons  Plains,  Conn. 

Board  of  Managers. 

Mr.  Satterlee  Swartwout,  Stamford,  Conn. 

Dr.  William  Freeman  French,  Noroton,  Conn. 

Col.  George  Bliss  Sanford,  Litchfield,  Conn. 

Rev.  Henry  N.  Wayne,  Westport,  Conn. 
Mr.  Louis    J.    Allen,     Chief 

Engineer,  U.  S.  N. 

Mr.  Jesup  Wakeman,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  Simon  Couch  Sherwood,  Southport,  Conn. 
Mr.  Augustus     Floyd     Dela- 

field,  Noroton,  Conn. 

Mr.  John  Smith  Jones,  Westport,  Conn. 

Delegates  to  General  Society. 
Col.  Dwight  Morris, 
Rev.  Alexander  Hamilton, 
Nathan  Gillette  Pond, 
Satterlee  Swartwout, 
Jesup  Wakeman. 

Alternates. 
Augustus  Floyd  Delafield, 
Edward  Wood  Riker, 
Robert  Clark  Morris,  D.C.L., 
Rev.  Henry  N.  Wayne, 
Rev.  Nathaniel  Ellsworth  Cornwall. 


91 


92  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

The  third  meeting  of  the  Society  was  held  in  the  Old 
Court  House,  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  on  the  7th  day  of  Sep- 
tember, 1893. 

The  Secretary  pro  tern  read  a  letter  of  congratulation 
from  James  M.  Montgomery,  the  Secretary  of  the  General 
Society,  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  in  which  the  Connecticut 
Society  was  invited  to  join  the  General  Society.  In  this 
letter  Mr.  Montgomery  suggested  that  the  Connecticut 
Society  be  incorporated  at  once. 

The  officers  nominated  at  the  meeting  of  the  5th  instant 
were  unanimously  elected,  and  President  Dwight  Morris 
was  escorted  to  the  Chair  amid  tumultuous  applause. 

The  Committee  on  Credentials,  through  its  Chairman, 
the  Rev.  Alexander  Hamilton,  approved  the  admission  as 
members  of  those  gentlemen  who  had  been  recommended  at 
the  meeting  of  September  5th,  and  they  were  admitted. 

An  application  for  admission  to  the  General  Society  was 
prepared  and  adopted  as  follows : 

To  the  General  Society,  Sons  of  the  Revolution: 

The  undersigned  incorporators  of  the  Connecticut 
Society,  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  respectfully  ask  for  ad- 
mission for  said  Society  to  the  General  Society,  Sons  of 
the  Revolution. 

BE  IT  KNOWN,  That  on  the  seventh  day  of  Septem- 
ber, 1893,  Dwight  Morris,  Cyrus  Sherwood  Bradley,  Henry 
Walton  Wessels,  Alexander  Hamilton,  Jr.,  Henry  N. 
Wayne,  A.  Floyd  Delafield,  Thomas  B.  Fairfield,  William 
Freeman  French,  and  Jesup  Wakeman  did  associate  them- 
selves as  a  body  corporate,  pursuant  to  the  Statute  Laws  of 
the  State  of  Connecticut  regulating  the  formation  and 
organization  of  corporations  without  capital  stock,  and  the 
following  are  their  Articles  of  Association : 

Article  I.  The  name  of  said  Corporation  shall  be 
"  Sons  of  the  Revolution." 

Article  II.  The  purposes  for  which  said  Corporation 
is  formed  are  the  following,  to  wit: 

To  perpetuate  the  memory  of  the  men  who,  in  the 
military,   naval,   and  civil  service   of  the   Colonies  and  the 


ORIGIN  OF  THE  SOCIETY  93 

Continental  Congress,  by  their  acts  or  counsel,  achieved 
American  Independence;  to  promote  and  assist  In  the  proper 
celebration  of  the  anniversaries  of  the  birthday  of  Wash- 
ington, and  of  prominent  events  In  the  War  of  the  Revolu- 
tion; to  inspire  among  the  members  and  their  descendants 
the  patriotic  spirit  of  their  forefathers;  to  inculcate  in  the 
community  In  general  sentiments  of  nationality  and  respect 
for  the  principles  for  which  the  Patriots  of  the  Revolution 
contended,  and  to  promote  social  intercourse  and  the  feeling 
of  fellowship  among  Its  members. 

Article  III.  The  Statute  Laws  of  the  State  of  Con- 
necticut relating  to  corporations  without  capital  stock  are 
hereby  referred  to  and  made  a  part  of  these  articles,  and 
the  Corporation  hereby  organized  and  established  under^ 
and  pursuant  to,  said  Statute  Laws  shall  have  all  the  powers 
and  proceed  according  to  the  regulations  ciescrlbed  and 
specified  therein. 

Article  IV.  The  said  Corporation  Is  located  in  the  town 
of  New  Haven,  County  of  New  Haven,  and  State  of  Con- 
necticut. 

Dated   at   Bridgeport  this   seventh   day   of   September, 

1893- 

We,  the  undersigned,  President  and  Secretary  of  the 
"  Sons  of  the  Revolution  "  hereby  certify  that  the  foregoing 
Is  a  true  copy  of  the  articles  of  said  Corporation. 

Attest:    (Signed)    Dwight  Morris,  President. 

"  Cyrus  Sherwood  Bradley,  Secretary. 


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FOUNDERS 


SOCIETY 


SONS    OF  THE   REVOLUTION 


State  of  Connecticut 
1893 


FOUNDERS  OF  THE  SOCIETY. 


97 


FOUNDERS 


Society  of  the   Sons  of  the  Revolution   in 
the   State   of  Connecticut. 


Instituted  May  24,  i8q3. 
Incorporated  September  7,  l8g^. 


Chief  Engineer  Louis  Joseph  Allen,  U.S.N., 

Cyrus    Sherwood    Bradley, 

Reverend   Nathaniel  E.   Cornwall, 

Augustus  Floyd  Delafield,  . 

Frank  Curtis  Dowd, 

Thomas    Benjamin    Fairchild, 

Chauncey  S.  Foster, 

William   Freeman  French,  M.D., 

Howard  E.  Gates,  M.D., 

Reverend  Alexander  Hamilton,     . 

Leigh  R.  Hoyt,        .... 

John  Smith  Jones,    .... 

Brigadier-General   DwiGHT  Morris, 

Robert  Clark   Morris,  D.C.L., 

Daniel  Nash  Morgan,     . 

Nathan  G.  Pond,      .... 

Edward  Wood  Riker, 

Lieut.-Colonel   George   Bliss  Sanford,   U.S. A 

William   Henry  Sanford, 

Satterlee  Swartwout,     . 

Jesup  Wakeman,       .... 

Howard  Nickols  Wakeman,  . 

Reverend  Henry  Nicoll  Wayne,  . 

Colonel  Henry  Walton  Wessells, 


Brookljn,    N.    Y. 
Southport,   Conn. 
Stratford,  Conn. 
Noroton,  Conn. 
Madison,   Conn. 
Stratford,  Conn. 
Winsted,  Conn. 
Noroton,  Conn. 

Lyons  Plains,  Conn. 
Lyons  Plains,  Conn. 
Westport,  Conn. 
Bridgeport,  Conn. 
New  York. 
Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Milford,  Conn. 
Stamford,  Conn. 
Litchfield,    Conn. 
Litchfield,    Conn. 
Stamford,  Conn. 
Southport,  Conn. 
Southport,    Conn. 
Armonk,    N.    Y. 
Litchfield,   Conn. 


OFFICERS 


SOCIETY 


SONS   OF   THE   REVOLUTION 


State  of  Connecticut 


SINCE    ITS   organization 


OFFICERS  SINCE  ITS  ORGANIZATION.  loi 


Officers  Since  Its  Organization 


Presidents. 

Elected.  Retired 

1893  Brigadier-General  Dwight  Morris,  Founder,      1894 

1894  Honorable   Morgan   Gardner   Bulkeley,  .... 

Vice-Presidents. 
1893      Honorable  Daniel  Nash  Morgan,   Founder,      .... 

Secretaries. 

1893      Cyrus  Sherwood  Bradley,  Founder,  1895 

1895  Rev.  Henry  Nicoll  Wayne,  Founder,  1901 

1 90 1  Walter  Leslie  Wakefield,  1906 
1906     Edward  Hart  Fenn,  .... 

Assistant  Secretaries. 

1895      Abram  Baldwin  Sturges,  M.D.,  1897 

1897     George  James  Holmes,  M.D.,  1902 

1902  Charles  Barney  Whittelsey,  1904 
1904     Henry  Waite  Bigelow,  1905 

Treasurers. 

1893      Colonel    Henry   Walton   Wessells,    Founder,      1909 

1909      Walter  Collyer  Faxon,  .... 

Registrars. 

1893  Nathan  Gillette  Pond,  Founder,  '-894 

1894  Jesup  Wakeman,  Founder,  1895 

1895  William  Freeman  French,  M.D.,  Founder,  1897 
1897  William  Ferris  Waterbury,  1899 
1899  William  Taylor  Andrews,  1902 
1902  Hanford  Lorenzo  Curtis,  1906 
1906  Walter  Leslie  Wakefield,  1908 
1908      Hon.  Francis  Hubert  Parker,  .... 


i02  sons  of  the  revolution. 

Chaplains. 

Elected.  Retired. 

1893  Rev.  Alexander  Hamilton,   Founder,  1894 

1894  Rev.  Nathaniel  Ellsworth  Cornwall,  1897 

1897  Rev.  George  Israel  Brown,  1898 

1898  Rev.   Frederick  R.  Sanford,  .... 

Historian. 

1902      Charles  Barney  Whittelsey,  .... 


MANAGERS. 


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MANAGERS 


Officers  Since  Its  Organization. 


Managers  —  1893-4. 
Satterlee  Swartwout, 
William  F.  French,  M.  D., 
Col.  George  B.  Sanford, 
Rev.  Henry  N.  Wayne, 
Louis  J.  Allen,  U.  S.  Navy, 
Jesup  Wakeman, 
Simon  C.  Sherwood, 
Augustus  F.  Delafield, 
John  S.  Jones. 


Managers  — 1894-5. 
Satterlee  Swartwout, 
William  F.  French,  M.  D. 
Col.  George  B.  Sanford, 
Augustus  F.  Delafield, 
Simon  C.  Sherwood, 
Robert  C.  Morris, 
John  E.  Heaton, 
Hon.  a.  p.  Bradstreet, 
Oliver  T.  Sherwood. 


Managers  — 1895-6. 
Cyrus  S.  Bradley, 
Reverend  A.  Hamilton, 
Col.  G.  B.  Sanford, 
Hon.  a.  p.  Bradstreet, 
Robert  C.  Morris, 
David  H.  Gould, 
Oliver  T.  Sherwood, 
William  F.  Waterbury, 
Leigh  R.  Hoyt. 


Managers  —  1896-7. 
Robert  C.  Morris, 
David  H.  Gould, 
Leigh  R.  Hoyt, 
Timothy  Jones, 
Oliver  T.  Sherwood, 
William  F.  Waterbury, 
Augustus  F.  Delafield, 
Frederick  J.  Huntington, 
Frank  C.  Dowd. 


Managers  — 1897-8. 

Augustus  F.  Delafield, 
Timothy  Jones, 
Robert  P.  Wakeman, 
George  J.  Holmes,  M.D., 
Rev.  E.  Livingston  Wells, 
Thomas  D.  Bradstreet, 
Chauncey  S.  Foster, 
James  B.  Bowen, 
Loren  T.  Day,  M.D. 


Managers  — 1898-9. 
A.  Floyd  Delafield, 
Robert  P.  Wakeman, 
Chauncey  S.  Foster, 
James  W.  Cheney, 
Thomas  D.  Bradstreet, 
Howard  N.  Wakeman, 
Charles  E.  Hart, 
Henry  Hooker. 


Managers  — 1899-1900. 
A.  Floyd  Delafield, 
James  W.  Cheney, 
Howard  N.  Wakeman, 
Charles  E.  Hart, 
Howard  G.  Provost, 
Charles  H.  Leeds, 
Ransom  N.  Fitzgerald, 
Charles  W.  Hodge, 
Charles  B.  Mason. 


Managers  —  1900-I901. 

A.  Floyd  Delafield, 
James  W.  Cheney, 
Ransom  N.  Fitzgerald, 
David  H.  Gould, 
Howard  G.  Provost,  D.D.S., 
Isaac  W.  Birdseye, 
John  S.  Jones, 
Frederick  D.  Street, 
Charles  B.  Mason. 


Managers  — 1901-1902. 
A.  Floyd  Delafield, 
Isaac  W.  Birdseye, 
Ransom  N.  Fitzgerald, 
John  S.  Jones, 
David  H.  Gould, 
Frederick  D.  Street, 
Henry  N.  Wayne, 
Hanford  L.  Curtis, 
N.  Burton  Rogers. 


104 


SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 


Managers  —  igo2-igo2. 
A.  Floyd  Delafield, 
Isaac  W.  Birdseye, 
Ransom  N.  Fitzgerald. 
John  S.  Jones, 
David  H.  Gould, 
Frederick  D.  Street, 
Wm.  F.  Waterbury, 
Hanford  L.  Curtis, 
N.  Burton  Rogers. 


Managers  —  IQOS-I904. 
A.  Floyd  Delafield, 
Isaac  W.  Birdseye, 
Ransom  N.  Fitzgerald, 
John  S.  Jones, 
David  H.  Gould, 
Frederick  D.  Street, 
William   F.  Waterbury, 
N.  Burton  Rogers, 
Francis  H.  Parker. 


Managers  —  iQ04.-igo5. 
Francis  H.  Parker, 
John  S.  Jones, 
Albert  L.  Pope, 
Maj.  James  W.  Cheney, 
Walter  C.  Faxon, 
Edward  H.  Fenn, 
Wm.  Seward,  Jr., 
Com.  Frank  H.  Eldridge, 

U.  S.  N., 
Ransom  N.  Fitzgerald. 


Managers  —  igos-igo6. 
Francis  H.  Parker, 
John  S.  Jones, 
Albert  L.  Pope, 
Maj.  James  W.  Cheney, 
Walter  C.  Faxon, 
William  Seward,  Jr., 
Ransom  Fitzgerald, 
Edward  H.  Fenn, 
Com.  F.  H.  Eldridge,  U.  S.  N. 


Managers  —  igo6-igoy. 
Francis  H.  Parker, 
Maj.  James  W.  Cheney, 
John  S.  Jones, 
Morgan  B.  Brainard, 
Albert  L.  Pope, 
Walter  C.  Faxon, 
William  Seward,  Jr., 
Edward  B.  Pratt, 
Normand  F.  Allen. 


Managers  —  igoy-ig 
Francis  H.  Parker, 
James  W.  Cheney, 
Walter  C.  Faxon, 
Albert  L.  Pope, 
Normand  F.  Allen, 
Rollin  U.  Tyler, 
Eugene  Boardman, 
William  R.  Bushnell, 
Edward  B.  Pratt. 


Managers  —  igo8-igog. 
Walter  C.  Faxon, 
William  R.  Bushnell, 
Normand  F.  Allen, 
Edwa'.rd  B.  Pratt, 
Rollin  U.  Tyler, 
Thomas  D.  Bradstreet, 
Eugene  Boardman, 
Walter  L.  Wakefield, 
John  M.  Parker,  Jr. 


Managers  —  igog-igio. 
William  R.  Bushnell, 
Rollin  U.  Tyler, 
Eugene  Boardman, 
Thomas  D.  Bradstreet, 
Walter  L.  Wakefield, 
Morgan  B.  Brainard, 
Frank  H.  Eldridge, 
John  M.  Parker,  Jr., 
Charles  B.  Whittelsey. 


Managers  —  igio-igii. 
William  R.  Bushnell, 
Eugene  Boardman, 
Thomas  D.  Bradstreet, 
Walter  L.  Wakefield, 
John  M.  Parker,  Jr., 
Charles  B.  Whittelsey, 
Nathaniel  B.  Rogers, 
Louis  W.  Button, 
Walter  St.  George  Harris. 


Managers  —  igil-igi2. 
William  R.  Bushnell, 
Eugene  Boardman, 
Thomas  D.  Bradstreet, 
Walter  L.  Wakefield, 
John  M.  Parker,  Jr., 
Charles  B.  Whittelsey, 
Nathaniel  B.  Rogers, 
Louis  W.  Button, 
Walter  St.  George  Harris, 


Managers  —  igis-igi^. 
Eugene  Boardman, 
Walter  L.  Wakefield, 
John  M.  Parker,  Jr., 
Charles  B.  Whittelsey, 
Louis  W.  Button, 
Walter  St.  George  Harris, 
Clarence  H.  Wickham, 
Allan  McLane  Mowry, 
Harry  W.  Reynolds. 


Managers  —  igis-igi4. 
Eugene  Boardman, 
Charles  B.  Whittelsey, 
Louis  W.  Button, 
Walter  St.  George  Harris, 
Clarence  H.  Wickham, 
Harry  W.  Reynolds, 
Ralph  A.  Blydenburg, 
Isaac  W.  Birdseye, 
Clarence  B.  Warner. 


THE  SOCIETY 


SONS   OF   THE   REVOLUTION 


State  of  Connecticut 

1894 

Connecticut  High  School 
Prize  Essay  Contest 


PRIZE  ESSAY  CONTEST.  107 

SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION 

CONNECTICUT  SOCIETY. 

To   the   Connecticut  High  School  Scholars,   Greetikg: 

The  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  was  instituted  in  the  State  of 
New  York,  Washington's  Birthday,  1876,  and  a  national  organization  per- 
fected in  March,  1890. 

The  necessity  for  and  the  purposes  of  the  Society  are,  as  stated  in  the 
Constitution : 

"  It  being  evident,  from  a  steady  decline  of  a  proper  celebration  of  the 
national  holidays  of  the  United  States  of  America,  that. popular  concern  in 
the  events  and  men  of  the  War  of  the  Revolution  is  gradually  declining, 
and  that  such  lack  of  interest  is  attributable,  not  so  much  to  the  lapse  of 
time  and  the  rapidly  increasing  flood  of  immigration  from  foreign  coun- 
tries, as  to  the  neglect  on  the  part  of  descendants  of  Revolutionary  heroes 
to  perform  their  duty  in  keeping  before  the  public  mind  the  memory  of  the 
services  of  their  ancestors  and  of  the  times  in  which  they  lived;  therefore, 
the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  has  been  instituted  to  perpetuate 
the  memory  of  the  men,  who,  in  the  military,  naval  and  civil  service  of  the 
Colonies  and  of  the  Continental  Congress,  by  their  acts  or  counsel,  achieved 
the  independence  of  the  country,  and  to  further  the  proper  celebration  of 
the  anniversaries  of  the  birthday  of  Washington,  and  of  prominent  events 
connected  with  the  War  of  the  Revolution ;  to  collect  and  secure  for  preser- 
vation the  rolls,  records  and  other  documents  relating  to  that  period;  to 
inspire  the  members  of  the  Society  with  the  patriotic  spirit  of  their  fore- 
fathers; and  to  promote  the  feeling  of  friendship  among  them." 

Its  membership  is  composed  of  direct  male  descendants  of  ancestors  who, 
either  as  military,  naval  or  marine  officers,  soldiers,  sailors,  or  marines,  or 
officials  in  the  service  of  any  one  of  the  thirteen  original  colonies  or  states, 
or  of  the  national  government,  assisted  in  establishing  the  independence  of 
the  country  during  the  War  of  the  Revolution. 

The  various  Societies  have  erected  monuments  on  revolutionary  battle- 
fields, and  placed  memorial  tablets  on  many  historic  houses,  and  the  New 
York  Society  has  erected  a  bronze  statue  to  the  memorj^  of  Connecticut's 
martyr  patriot,  Captain  Nathan  Hale,  in  the  Cit>'  of  New   York. 

The  Connecticut  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  would  erect  a 
monument  to  loyalty  and  patriotism  in  the  hearts  of  the  youth  of  Con- 
necticut. Now,  therefore,  as  an  incentive  to  research  in  the  country's  patri- 
otic history,  and  to  give  them  a  more  intimate  knowledge  of  our  forefathers' 
patriotism,  devotion,  heroism  and  sacrifices. 

The  Connecticut  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  offers  them  a  silver 
medal  as  a  first  prize,  and  a  bronze  medal  as  a  second  prize,  for  the  best 
original  essays  upon   the   subject: 

The  Causes  that  Led  to  the  War  of  the  Revolution. 
Competing  essays  are  to  contain   not  less   than   1776   nor  more   than   1894 
words  —  to   be   written    on    one   side   only,    on    8  x  ioj4    paper   with    iK'    inch 


lo8  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

margin  on  the  left  —  to  be  signed  by  a  nom-de-plume,  accompanied  with  a 
sealed  envelope  with  the  nom-de-plume  on  the  outside  and  to  contain  the 
writer's  real  name,  address,  school  and  a  certificate  from  the  superintendent 
or  principal  that  the  essay  is  original. 

All  essays  must  be  mailed  in  a  "  legal  "  envelope  to  the  Secretary  of  this 
Society,  before  May  22,  1894.  The  Committee  will  receive  the  essays  and 
the  Secretary  will  retain  the  envelopes  containing  the  writers'  real  names 
until  the  Committee  has  reached  a  decision,  when  they  will  be  opened  by 
the  Board  of  Managers  of  the  Society.  The  prizes  will  be  awarded  at  the 
closing   exercises  of   the   high   schools. 

The  Society  suggests  and  authorizes  for  a  committee  of  review  and  in- 
spection, the  principal  and  teachers  of  each  competing  high  school,  that  only 
meritorious  essays  be  sent. 

The  prize  medal  is  silver,  the  face  being  a  fac-simile  of  the  seal  of  the 
Society,  on  the  reverse  an  appropriate  inscription  with  recipient's  name. 
The  medal  to  be  suspended  by  a  buff  and  blue  (the  Society's  colors)  silk 
ribbon,  from  a  silver  bar,  bearing  the  word  Connecticut.  The  second  prize 
to  be  a  fac-simile  of  the  first  in  bronze. 

The  Secretary  should  be  informed  at  the  earliest  opportunity  the  number 

of  scholars  in  each  high  school  who  will  compete. 

Given  at  New  Haven  this  twenty-second  day  of  February, 

in    the  year   of   our   Lord,    one    thousand    eight   hundred    and 

ninety-four,  and  of  the  Independence  of  the  United  States  of 

America  the  one  hundred  and  eighteenth. 

[Seal.]         Attest: 

DwiGHT  Morris, 

Cyrus    Sherwood   Bradley,  President. 

Secretary. 

Southport,   Conn. 

The  foregoing  plan  meets  my  hearty  approval,  and  I  commend  it  to  the 
consideration  of  the  officials  and  pupils  of  the  High  Schools  of  the  State. 

Luzon  B.  Morris, 
Chairman  of  State  Board  of  Education. 

In  response  to  the  foregoing  circular  which  was  issued 
to  the  High  Schools  in  Connecticut,  the  Society  received 
twenty-four  essays,  after  careful  examination  the  following 
awards  were  made : 

I  St  Prize.     Aeneas  —  by  G.  W.  Osmum  of  Danbury. 

2nd  Prize.  Molly  Stark  —  by  Miss  Elsie  W.  Bates  of 
Willimantic. 

Honorable  Mention.      Nathan  Hale   Patriot,  by  W.  V. 

Goldie  of  New  London;  Dorothy  Q. ,  by  Miss  Florence 

E.    Scott   of   Willimantic;   Sella ,    by    Miss    Mary    L. 

Crowe  of  Danbury. 


NATHAN  HALE  SCHOOLHOUSE. 


109 


THE  NATHAN  HALE  SCHOOLHOUSE. 

1750  —  1907. 

Headquarters    of    the    Connecticut    Society    Sons    of    the 

Revolution. 

During  the  17th  and  i8th  centuries  there  lived  in  the 
District  of  East  Haddam,  Connecticut,  many  of  the  good 
old  New  England  families,  whose  members  and  descendants 
have  helped  to  make  the  history  of  this  ever  progressing 
country  of  ours.  Among  them  were  the  Atwoods,  Barnes, 
Brainards,  Bulkeleys,  Chapmans,  Coles,  Clarks,  Champions, 
Emmonses,  Tullers,  Gates,  Greens,  Graves,  Goodspeeds, 
Piersons,  Marshalls,  Nicholses,  and  Spencers. 

Splendid  farms  were  laid  out,  churches  and  schools  were 
established,  and  manufacturing  interests  were  being  dis- 
cussed, when  the  demands  of  the  Colony  called  upon  the 
heads  of  these  families  for  their  assistance  in  the  protection 
of  home  interests  and  for  the  freedom  from  foreign  rule 
and  mismanagement  —  they  responded  nobly,  as  of  a  single 
voice  —  today  we  find  in  the  Colonial  and  Revolutionary 
War  records  all  of  these  and  many  other  family  names  from 
East  Haddam  as  soldiers  whose  endurance  and  skill  as 
fighters  and  marksmen  in  ranks  as  privates  was  essential  to 
its  success  as  the  cleverness  and  executive  ability  of  those 
who  filled  ever}^  officership  to  that  of  Major-General. 

About  1749-50  it  became  apparent  to  those  families  in 
East  Haddam  that  a  schoolhouse  was  necessary  in  that  dis- 
trict, and  through  their  influence  the  building  was  erected. 

It  is  unfortunate  that  the  town  records  do  not  disclose 
the  names  of  the  early  teachers  in  that  schoolhouse. 

It  was  probably  about  the  first  of  November,  1773,  that 
"  Nathan  Hale  "  began  his  career  as  a  teacher  in  that  little 
building  which   was  located   at  the    "  forks  "   in   the   road 


no  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

between  Moodus  Landing  and  Chapman's  Ferry\  For  in 
those  days  there  were  usually  but  two  school  terms  in  the 
year  —  a  five  months  winter  term  and  a  four  months  sum- 
mer term. 

Nathan  Hale  was  then  a  strong,  athletic  youth  of 
eighteen  years.  He  had  graduated  from  Yale  College  with 
honors  and  was  well  fitted  for  the  profession  he  entered 
upon  —  but  as  he  wrote  his  old  college  friend,  Mr.  Mead 
from  New  London,  May  2,  1774,  "  he  concluded  that  East 
Haddam  was  too  inaccessible,  either  by  friends,  acquaint- 
ances, or  letter,"  so  he  removed  to  New  London,  where  he 
taught  from  May,   1774,  to  July,   1775. 

Stuart's  "  Life  of  Nathan  Hale,  the  Martyr  Spy,"  con- 
tains extracts  from  a  letter  written  by  Mrs.  Hannah  (Green) 
Pierson,  who  knew  Hale  well  when  he  lived  in  East  Had- 
dam, in  which  she  says  that  "  he  was  a  happy  and  faithful 
teacher,  everybody  loved  him,  he  was  so  sprightly,  intelli- 
gent and  kind  and  so  handsome." 

Judge  Atwood  in  his  Reminiscences  said  that,  "  he  had  it 
from  the  lips  of  a  successful  teacher,  who  taught  in  the  same 
building  twenty  years  later,  that  he  received  the  munificent 
sum  of  four  dollars  a  month  for  his  services  and  boarded 
around,  and  that  was  the  rate  for  teachers'  wages  in  and 
before  his  time."  Also  "  that  tradition  has  it  that  as  the 
usual  time  of  school  hours  was  from  nine  in  the  morning 
until  seven  in  the  afternoon,  but  Hale  was  such  a  favorite 
with  his  female  pupils  that  they  came  at  seven  in  the  morn- 
ing and  remained  until  nine  in  the  evening,  bringing  their 
lunches  with  them." 

This  building  was  used  as  a  school  until  1799,  when 
another  larger  one  was  purchased,  at  which  time  Captain 
Elijah  Atwood  purchased  the  original  schoolhouse  and 
removed  it  to  the  north  some  one  hundred  yards,  to  a  place 
just  south  of  the  old  burying  ground,  and,  by  adding  a  little 
to  it,  converted  it  Into  a  dwelling  house.  He  lived  in  it 
until  his  death  in  18 16,  from  that  time  until  1899  it  had 
always  been  occupied  by  his  descendants.  In  1850  it  was 
purchased  by  Judge  Julius  Atwood.      In  1899,  ^^^^  hundred 


NATHAN  HALE  SCHOOLHOUSE.  m 

years  after  it  came  into  the  Atwood  family,  Judge  Julius 
Atwood  presented  the  building  to  Col.  Richard  Henry 
Green,  of  the  New  York  Society  Sons  of  the  Revolution, 
for  the  purpose  of  its  being  passed  by  him  to  Society  Sons 
of  the  Revolution.  Col.  Green  had  the  building  removed 
at  his  own  expense  to  its  present  site  on  the  banks  of  the 
Connecticut  river,  just  back  of  the  old  burying  ground  and 
the  Church  and  transferred  it  to  the  New  York  Society  Sons 
of  the  Revolution. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Connecticut  Society  Sons  of  the 
Revolution  held  November  14,  1899,  President  Hon. 
Morgan  G.  Bulkeley  read  a  communication  from  James  M. 
Montgomery,  Secretary  of  the  New  York  Society  Sons  of 
the  Revolution  asking  the  Connecticut  Society  to  accept  this 
historic  schoolhouse,  wherein  Nathan  Hale  had  begun  his 
life  work,  as  a  gift  from  the  New  York  Society.  The  gift 
was  accepted  and  a  committee  was  appointed  to  form  reso- 
lutions of  thanks  to  the  New  York  Society  and  Col.  R.  H. 
Green  for  their  kindness  in  presenting  the  Nathan  Hale 
Schoolhouse  to  the  Connecticut  Society. 

President  Hon.  Morgan  G.  Bulkeley  presented  the  Con- 
necticut Society  with  eight  acres  of  picturesque  ground  on 
the  banks  of  the  Connecticut  river  at  East  Haddam,  which 
surrounds  the  Nathan  Hale  Schoolhouse  and  it  has  been 
converted  into  the  "  Nathan  Hale  National  Park." 

The  formal  acceptance  of  the  Nathan  Hale  Schoolhouse 
and  Park  was  held  June  6,  1900,  the  one  hundred  and 
forty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  birth  of  Nathan  Hale,  when 
it  became  the  Headquarters  of  the  Connecticut  Sons  of  the 
Revolution,  where  the  annual  meetings  are  held  during  the 
month  of  June.  The  ceremonies  were  combined  with  the 
Bicentennial  celebration  of  the  town  of  East  Haddam,  and 
the  unveiling  of  a  bronze  bust  of  Nathan  Hale  by  the 
townspeople  to  mark  the  original  site  of  the  schoolhouse 
when  Hale  taught  in  the  winter  of  1773-74, 


112  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

The  town  exercises  held  in  Goodspeed's  Opera  House 
at  10:30  A.  M.,  consisted  of 

Music 

Prayer 

Address 

Response  for  Haddam    .  by  Rollin  U.  Tyler. 

Reminiscences  of  the  Old 

Schoolhouse         .  .         by  Judge  Julius  Atwood. 

Poem  —  Two     Hundred 

Years  Ago  .  .  by  Joe  Cone. 

Singing  —  The  Star 

Spangled  Banner  .  by  East  Haddam  School  chil- 

dren. 
Historical  Address  .         by  Hon.  E.  Emory  Johnson. 

Procession  to  Village  Park. 

Presentation    of   bust   of 

Nathan  Hale       .  .  by  Wm.  E.  Nichols. 

Unveiling       ...  by  Mrs.  Marcellus  Hartley. 

Acceptance     ...  by  Hon.  Francis  H.  Parker, 

Afternoon  Exercises. 

Music    ....  by  Colt's  Band. 

Prayer  ...  by  Dr.  Edward  Everett  Hale. 

Address — Nathan  Hale, 

Schoolmaster       .  .  by  Victor  H.  Palsits. 

Music 

Poem  ...  by  Judge  Francis  M.  Finch. 

Presentation  of  the  Nathan  Hale  Schoolhouse  by  F.  S. 
Tallmadge,  Esq.,  President  of  the  N.  Y.  Society  Sons  of 
the  Revolution. 

Acceptance     ...         by  Hon.    Morgan    G.    Bulke- 

ley,  President  of  the  Con- 
necticut Society  Sons  of  the 
Revolution. 


NATHAN  HALE  SCHOOLHOUSE.  113 

Address  ...  by  Colonel  Richard  H.  Green. 

Singing — My     Country 

'Tis  of  Thee       .  .  by   school   children   and  audi- 

ence. 

Benediction. 

Later  Col.  Richard  H,  Green  gave  to  the  Connecticut 
Society  the  old  clock  that  stood  in  the  house  of  his  grand- 
father, Captain  James  Green,  at  East  Haddam,  during  the 
time  Hale  boarded  there  while  he  was  teaching.  This  gift 
the  Society  also  values  very  highly. 

In  1799  when  Elijah  Atwood  purchased  the  building,  he 
added  that  part  under  the  low  roof,  and  all  that  now  remains 
of  the  original  structure  is  the  solid  oak  frame,  the  old  oaken 
floor  in  the  main  body,  on  which  the  feet  of  Nathan  Hale 
so  often  trod,  the  rafters,  the  roof  boards  and  the  old  oak 
planking,  which  stand  as  a  silent  memorial  to  Nathan  Hale, 
the  Patriot  Martyr  Teacher. 

Charles  Barney  Whittelsey, 

Historian,   igo^. 


114 


SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 


NATHAN  HALE  SCHOOL  BOY  MEDAL. 

At  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Society  Sons  of  the  Revolu- 
tion in  the  State  of  Connecticut,  held  in  the  Nathan  Hale 
Schoolhouse  at  East  Haddam,  June  6,  1901,  a  resolution  was 
introduced  by  William  E.  Nichols  and  unanimously  adopted, 
to  the  effect  that  this  Society  annually  offer  a  bronze  medal 
to  that  scholar  in  the  Nathan  Hale  Schoolhouse  District 
(Second  School  District  of  East  Haddam,  Conn.)  "who 
shall  most  display  the  courage,  manliness,  and  self  sacrifice 
which  Nathan  Hale  exemplified  in  his  life,"  and  this  boy 
shall  be  selected  by  the  boys  of  this  Second  School  District 
of  East  Haddam,  Conn. 

This  boy  known  as  the  Nathan  Hale  Scholar  is  to  have 
the  United  States  flag  flying  on  the  Nathan  Hale  School- 
house  flagpole  every  day  during  the  year,  and  is  given  a 
reasonable  compensation  for  so  doing. 


The  Nathan  Hale  Schoolboy  Medal  was  voted  to : 

1902  Wilson  D.  Beebe, 

1903  Wilson  D.  Beebe, 

1904  Ray  Arnold  Comstock, 

1905  William  Ogden  Scoville, 

1906  Henry  L.  Clarke, 

1907  Stanley  D.  Plumstead, 

1908  Edwin  Claude  Swan, 

1909  Eldon  T.  Swan, 

19 10  Arthur  C.  Olsen, 

191 1  Harold  F.  Ray, 

191 2  Floyd  M.  Ray, 

19 13  Daniel  J.  Taylor. 


MAJOR  (tKNKKAL  .H)SK1' 
1714        17<S'» 


'KNCER 


JOSEPH  SPENCER.  115 


The  Connecticut  State  Legislature  at  the  session  of 
January,  1901,  appropriated  five  hundred  dollars  for  a  por- 
trait of  Major-General  Joseph  Spencer,  also  fifteen  hundred 
dollars  for  a  suitable  monument,  and  appointed  the  follow- 
ing committee  in  charge  of  the  execution  of  this  work. 

John  M.  Holcombe,  Chairman,  Hartford, 
Hon.  Morgan  G.  Bulkeley,  Hartford, 
Wilson  C.  Reynolds,  East  Haddam, 
Charles  E.  Brownell,  East  Haddam, 
John  B.  Gelston,  East  Haddam. 

A  lineal  descendant  of  Major-General  Joseph  Spencer, 
A.  Cass  Ledyard  of  New  York  City,  contributed  fifteen 
hundred  dollars  towards  the  monument  fund. 

The  portrait  was  painted  by  Charles  Noel  Flagg  of 
Hartford,  Conn,  and  was  hung  on  the  walls  of  the  Senate 
Chamber  in  the  Connecticut  State  Capitol  building  in  Hart- 
ford, Conn. 

After  the  submission  of  plans  from  a  number  of  monu- 
ment makers,  the  committee  selected  the  design  of  Stephen 
Maslen,  Hartford,  Conn.,  which  is  twenty-four  feet  tall, 
with  a  base  seven  and  one-half  feet  square  of  Barre  Granite. 
It  has  a  large  sub-base  with  a  die  and  four  columns,  and  an 
overhanging  cap  surmounted  by  a  round  column.  This  has 
a  square  cap  with  a  large  ball  above  and  a  bronze  eagle 
over  all;  the  likeness  of  Major-General  Joseph  Spencer  in 
bronze  on  the  face  of  the  monument;  on  the  reverse  side 
the  inscription.  The  monument  was  erected  and  dedi- 
cated under  the  auspices  of  the  Society  Sons  of  the  Revo- 
lution in  the  State  of  Connecticut,  in  Nathan  Hale  Park, 
East  Haddam,  Conn.,  Wednesday,  June  22,   1904. 


Il6  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 


PROGRAMME. 

Invocation. 
Rev.  R.  R.  Parker. 

Singing. 
Star  Spangled  Banner. 

Presentation  to  State. 
John  M.  Holcombe,  Chairman  of  State  Commission. 

Unveiling  of  Monument. 
Nathan  Hale  Chapter,  Daughters  of  the  American 

Revolution. 

Acceptance  and  transfer  to  care  of  Sons  of  Revolution. 
Abiram  Chamberlain,  Governor. 

Acceptance  of  Care. 
Morgan  G.  Bulkeley,   President  State  Society  Sons  of 

Revolution. 

Historical  Address. 
Charles  B.  Whittelsey. 

Singing. 
America. 

Benediction. 
Rev.  Frederick  R.  Sanford. 


,,,,,,  1   MniiuiiuMil  is  as  h-.-- 

.  „f  the  Honourable  Joseph  Spencer  Es.    ^ ajor  Gen.^|^ 
n   r  „f  the  ^tate  of  Connecticut  May  1/bb  anu 
t,>e  ^;;;-::f'the  Umted  states  of  An.eri^:     Elected  Counsellor  of  tlu   . 
died  in  Ice  Jany.  13th  17SV  .n  the  75th  Year  of  h>s  A.e. 


Tlie  exact  inscrii)tlon  on  ll 
••Erected  l.y  the  State  <,f  Connecticut  In  Memory 


Historical  Sketch  of  Joseph  Spencer 

Major-General  of  the  Continental  Troops, 

Member  of  the  Council  of  Safety, 

Congressman,  Judge,  Deputy, 

Deacon,  and  Farmer 


Compiled  by 

Charles  Barney  Whittelsey 

Historian  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  in  the 

State  of  Connecticut 

1904 


SKETCH  OF  JOSEPH  SPENCER. 


119 


The  family  records  of  the  Spencer  family  of  East  Had- 
dam,  Conn.,  state  that  Joseph  Spencer  was  born  in  East 
Haddam,  October  6,  17 14,  and  that  he  died  there  Jan- 
uary 13,  1789. 

He  was  the  son  of  Isaac  and  Mary  (Selden)  Spencer 
of  that  district,  and  the  great-grandson  of  Gerard  and 
Hannah  Spencer,  who  were  among  the  first  settlers  of  East 
Haddam  in  1662  (Mss.  Gene.  Rec.  of  East  Haddam 
families) . 

August  2,  1738,  Joseph  Spencer  married  Martha  Brain- 
erd,  by  whom  he  had  five  children;  their  fourth  child,  Joseph, 
became  a  surgeon  and  served  as  such  and  as  aid  to  his  father 
in  the  Revolution. 

He  married  2d,  Hannah  (Brown)  Southmayd,  by  whom 
he  had  eight  children  (Mss.  Gene.  Rec.  of  East  Haddam 
families) . 

Without  the  advantages  of  a  liberal  education,  Joseph 
Spencer  acquired  that  general  knowledge  and  acquaintance 
with  business  which  enabled  him  to  discharge  happily  and 
usefully  the  various  duties  to  which  he  was  called. 

March  14,  1746,  he  joined  the  church  of  the  Millington 
Society,  and  was  elected  a  deacon  November  20,  1767.  He 
was  excused  from  such  service  during  the  Revolution ;  was 
re-elected  April  4,  1788,  and  retained  this  office  until  his 
death   (Statistical  Account  of  Middlesex  Co.,  p.  81). 

The  peace  of  Utrecht  in  17 13  put  an  end  to  a  desolating 
war  with  the  French  and  Indians,  and  during  the  next  thirty 
years  but  few  events  of  importance  occurred  in  the  Colonies. 
In  1744  "King  George  War"  broke  out  between  France 
and  England,  and  at  once  brought  the  Colonists  into  hostile 
relations.  At  the  time  of  the  crisis  in  1746-7,  when  the 
frontier  line  from  Boston  to  Albany  became  no  longer 
tenable,  we  find  Joseph  Spencer  had  carefully  followed  the 


I20  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

situation;  he  had  enlisted  in  the  trainband,  and  on  Januai-y 
28,  1746-7,  received  his  first  appointment  by  the  General 
Assembly,  at  New  Haven,  as  Lieutenant  of  the  company  or 
trainband  of  the  parish  of  Millington  (Col.  Rec,  Vol.  IX, 

P-  375)- 

A  treaty  of  peace  was  concluded  October  7,  1748,      By 

its  stipulations   the    British   and   French   mutually   gave   up 

whatever  territory  each  had  taken,  and  the  vigorous  effort 

of  the  New  Englanders,  thus  rendered  useless  (Garneau). 

At  the  close  of  the  war,  Joseph  Spencer  turned  his 
thoughts  again  to  his  home  and  the  local  affairs.  He  had 
been  brought  up  under  a  strict  religious  discipline,  trained 
to  realize  that  the  growth  of  the  Colony,  as  well  as  his  own 
possessions,  depended  upon  his  individual  efforts. 

The  strong  but  loving  influence  of  his  parents  was  deeply 
impressed  upon  this  young  man,  as  is  shown  throughout 
his  life;  his  spirit  was  never  daunted,  even  under  the  most 
trying  circumstances.  He  would  never  allow  that  the  most 
difficult  undertakings  could  not  be  accomplished;  his  failures 
spurred  him  onward  and  upward. 

In  1750  he  was  elected  a  Deputy  from  East  Haddam  to 
the  General  Assembly  and  by  re-elections,  served  the  town  at 
nearly  all  legislative  sessions  for  fourteen  years.  He  was 
also  Deputy  from  that  town  at  the  October  session,  1778. 
(Col.  Rec.  Vols.  IX  to  XII,  State  Rec.  Vol.  II). 

From  the  autumn  of  1753  until  his  death  he  was  Judge 
of  Probate  for  the  District  of  East  Haddam  except  while 
absent  from  the  State  in  the  Continental  service  in  1776 
and  1777.      (Statistical  Account  of  Middlesex  Co.,  p.  81). 

Then  there  arose  the  Seven-Year  War,  over  the  dispute 
between  the  French  and  English  as  to  the  ownership  of  the 
territory  bordering  on  the  Ohio;  1753  the  French  seized 
British  traders  and  fort,  which  was  followed  by  Colonel 
Washington's  attack,  capture  of  Jumonville  and  his  men, 
the  battle  of  Great  Meadows,  General  Braddock's  defeat,  the 
battle  at  Lake  George,  the  third  expedition  against  Crown 
Point,  in  which  the  Virginia,  New  York,  and  New  England 
troops  all  took  part. 


SKETCH  OF  JOSEPH  SPENCER.  121 

Joseph  Spencer  was  deeply  interested  in  the  reports  of 
the  trials  and  sufferings  of  his  countrymen,  and  increased  the 
amount  of  his  time  given  to  local  military  affairs,  and  by 
his  intense  interest  and  devotion  had  risen  from  Lieutenant 
to  Captain,  and  was  appointed  Major  of  the  Twelfth  Regi- 
ment of  this  Colony,  in  the  Northern  Army,  by  the  Colonial 
Assembly,  Thursday,  October  13,  1757  (Col.  Rec,  Vol.  XI, 
p.  68). 

In  March,  1758,  as  Major  of  the  Second  Regiment,  and 
Captain  of  the  Third  Company,  under  Colonel  Nathan 
Whiting,  participated  with  his  regiment  in  the  invasion  of 
Canada  (Col.  Rec,  Vol.  XI,  p.  96),  the  expedition  against 
Louisburg,  Ticonderoga,  and  Crown  Point. 

In  1759  he  received  from  the  General  Assembly  his 
appointment  as  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  Second  Regiment, 
under  Colonel  Nathan  Whiting  (Col.  Rec,  Vol.  XI,  p.  226- 
354;  Vol.  XII,  p.  249),  and  served  as  such  during  the  siege 
of  Quebec,  and  succeeding  years  until  his  appointment  in 
May,  1766,  Colonel  of  the  Twelfth  Regiment,  during  which 
he  was  also  appointed  a  member  of  the  Governor's  Council 
(Col.  Rec,  Vol.  XII,  p.  459;  Cyclopedia  U.  S.  History, 
Lossing,  Vol.  II,  p.  1330). 

Colonel  Spencer  was  elected  an  assistant  in  1776  and 
was  continued  in  office  by  successive  re-elections  until  his 
death  except  in  the  year  1778  (Col.  Rec,  Vols.  XII-XV; 
State  Rec,  Vol.  II.  He  was  appointed  by  the  Legislature 
at  the  special  April  session,  1775,  First  Brigadier-General  of 
the  Regiments  then  ordered  for  "  the  safety  of  the  Colony  "; 
he  was  also  appointed  Colonel  of  the  Second  Regiment,  and 
his  commission  was  dated  May  i,  1775.  He  marched  with 
his  regiment,  by  order  of  the  Legislature,  to  the  camp  form- 
ing around  Boston,  and  took  post  at  Roxbury\  During  the 
siege  of  Boston  he  commanded  a  brigade  of  four  regiments 
including  his  own  with  Parsons  and  Huntington,  in  General 
Ward's  division  at  Roxbury  (Conn.  Men  in  R.,  p.  37). 

At  a  meeting  July  13,  1775,  of  Governor  Jonathan 
Trumbull  and  his   Council,   his  Honor  the  Governor  laid 


122  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

before  the  Council  a  letter  to  General  Washington,  contain- 
ing the  following: 

"  I  have  to  observe  to  your  Excellency,  that  the  Honor- 
able Congress  have  altered  the  arrangement  of  the  Generals 
appointed  by  our  Assembly.  We  wish  the  order  we  adopted 
had  been  pursued,  and  fear  Generals  Wooster  and  Spencer 
will  think  they  have  reasons  to  complain.  They  are  gentle- 
men held  in  high  estimation  by  our  Assembly,  and  by  the 
officers  and  troops  under  their  command.  There  are  reasons 
to  fear  that  inconveniences  will  arise  from  the  alterations, 
made  by  the  Congress,  in  the  rank  and  relation  of  those 
Generals;  at  the  same  time  they  have  the  highest  sense  of 
General  Putnam's  singular  merit  and  services  "  (Mss.  Col.,  5 
series,  Vol.  X). 

"  Two  of  the  Council,  Samuel  Huntington  and  William 
Williams,  were  appointed  to  wait  upon  General  Spencer  at 
Gray's,  the  tavern  where  he  had  just  arrived,  and  confer  with 
him  on  the  subject-matter  of  his  dissatisfaction,  etc.,  and 
endeavor  to  remove,  etc.,  and  reconcile  him  to  cheerfully 
pursue  the  service,  which  he  did  accordingly. 

"  In  the  afternoon  of  the  same  day  they  met  again  at 
the  Governor's,  where  General  Spencer  attended,  and  had  a 
long  conference  with  him  on  the  subject-matter  of  being 
superseded  by  the  General  Congress,  putting  General  Israel 
Putnam  above  him,  etc.,  which  he  thinks  is  very  hard  and 
results,  etc.,  and  is  at  length  persuaded  to  return  to  the  army, 
and  not  at  present  quit  the  service  as  he  proposed. 

"  General  Spencer  set  out  on  his  return  to  camp  with 
the  letters  to  General  Washington  "  (Am.  Archives,  4th 
series,  Vol.  II,  p.  1658). 

June  22,  1775,  Colonel  Joseph  Spencer  was  appointed 
Brigadier-General  of  Continental  Establishment,  by  the  Con- 
tinental Congress,  at  the  instance  of  General  Washington. 

General  Spencer's  Second  Regiment  was  raised  on  the 
first  call  for  troops  by  the  Legislature  in  April-May,  1775, 
and  was  recruited  mainly  in  present  Middlesex  County.  The 
General  with  detachments  of  officers  and  men  engaged  at  the 
battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  June  17th,  and  in  Arnold's  Quebec  ex- 


SKETCH  OF  JOSEPH  SPENCER. 


123 


pedition,  Sept. -Dec,  1775  ;  it  served  until  expiration  of  serv- 
ice, December,  1775,  and  accompanied  the  troops  to  New 
York,  the  next  field  of  operations,  and  assisted  in  fortifying 
the  city  and  vicinity. 

August  9,  1776,  General  Spencer  was  promoted  to 
Major-General  of  the  Continental  Army,  and  given  com- 
mand of  a  division  composed  of  Parsons'  and  Wadsworth's 
Connecticut  Brigades.  He  was  present  at  Long  Island  at 
time  of  the  battle  August  27th,  half  of  his  division  being 
engaged;  present  at  White  Plains  October  25th,  and  on 
December  14th  vv^as  ordered  eastward,  and  took  command 
in  Rhode  Island,  which  was  surrounded  by  Admiral  Sir  Peter 
Parker's  forces.  General  Spencer  remained  in  command 
through  1777. 

He  organized  an  expedition  of  about  nine  thousand 
State  troops  against  the  enemy  at  Newport,  and  on  October 
26,  1777,  attempted  a  forward  movement,  but  the  weather 
and  failure  of  one  brigade  to  report  in  time  caused  mis- 
carriage of  the  plan. 

Jonathan  Trumbull,  in  a  letter  dated  December  2,  1777, 
to  General  Washington,  wrote  the  following  relative  to  the 
affair:  "  The  expedition  to  Newport  hath  unhappily  failed. 
An  Inquiry  hath  been  made  Into  the  reasons.  General 
Spencer  was  exculpated.  A  Brigadier  Palmer  failed  in  his 
duty.  The  enemy  were  meditating  an  attack  on  Bedford, 
and  had  actually  embarked  troops,  which  were  prevented  by 
this." 

General  Spencer  Invited  a  court  of  inquiry  and  proposed 
another  effort.  Exonerated  by  the  court  November  15, 
1777,  Congress  on  December  11,  1777,  ordered  an  Investi- 
gation. 

General  Spencer  resigned  December  20th  following,  and 
on  January  13,  1778,  Congress  accepted  the  resignation, 
"  for  the  reasons  offered  by  him  In  his  letter  of  the  20th." 
( Copy  of  letter,  pages  7- 1 1 . ) 

February  12,  1778,  General  Spencer  was  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Council  of  Safety  for  this  State  (Vol.  I,  Rec.  of 
State,  p.  537)  ;  May,  1779;  appointed  First  Major-General 


124  5*0 A^^  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

of  the  Connecticut  Militia,  succeeding  Major-General  Jabez 
Huntington,  resigned  (State  Rec,  Vol.  II,  p.  294)  ;  the  same 
year  was  appointed  Delegate  to  Congress  by  the  General 
Court. 

Thus  it  is  seen  that  the  eminent  patriot  General  Joseph 
Spencer  was  engaged  in  the  service  of  his  country  from  as 
early  as  he  was  able  to  bear  arms  until  he  died  at  the  ripe 
age  of  seventy-five  years. 


LETTER  OF  JOSEPH  SPENCER.  125 


The  letter  of  General  Joseph  Spencer  to  President  George 

Washington  and  the  Continental  Congress. 

Dated : 

Providence  Decf  20th  1777 
Sir 

Permit  me  to  Lay  before  Your  Honor,  &  the  Honorable  Congress 
a  further  Account  of  the  difficulties,  that  have  attended  the  support 
of  this  Army,  and  that  still  subsist  here  relative  thereto  —  when  I 
Arrived  here  the  ist  of  January  last,  and  untill  some  time  in  August, 
there  was  in  this  State  A  Regulating  Act,  fixing  the  prices  of  the 
Articles  Necessary  to  support  the  Army  and  while  that  Act  con- 
tinued in  force,  my  Quarter  Master  was  enabled  by  this  State  to  take 
by  impress  such  Articles  as  was  Necessary  for  the  subsistance  of  the 
Army,  provided  he  could  not  obtain  them  by  purchase  at  the  stated 
prices:  when  I  was  informed  that,  that  Act  was  Repealed  on  the 
25**^  of  August  I  made  application  to  the  Council  of  War,  to  know 
what  provision  was,  or  would  be  made  by  the  State  for  the  Supply 
of  the  Army,  (as  the  Regulating  Act  was  Repealed)  in  case  the 
Necessary  Articles  could  not  be  obtained  by  purchase  at  a  reasonable 
rate,  and  not  Receiving  any  Written  Answer  for  some  time,  on  the 
12'**  of  September  I  wrote  again  on  the  same  subject,  to  the  Council 
of  War,  a  Copy  of  which  I  enclose,  and  on  the  15""  rec*^  the  Council's 
Answer  a  Copy  of  which  I  also  enclose,  by  this  Resolve  of  Council, 
my  right  to  supply  the  Army  with  Necessaries  by  impress,  giving 
the  Owners  a  Reasonable  price  for  the  Articles  taken  seemed  to  be 
granted,  provided  I  could  not  obtain  them  by  purchase,  but  then 
the  very  difficult  and  important  question,  what  was  a  reasonable 
price  was  left  solely  to  me  to  decide,  in  this  Situation  I  thought  it 
would  be  the  most  prudent  and  safe  way  for  me  to  Instruct  my 
Quarter  Master,  to  purchase  what  he  could  at  the  prices  we  had 
formerly  given,  and  what  he  could  not  obtain  at  that  price  he  must 
take  by  Impress,  paying  at  the  present  what  was  formerly  allowed, 
with  Assurance  to  the  Owners,  that  a  Representation  of  the  matter 
should  be  made  to  Congress,  and  that  on  hearing  the  case  Your 
Honors  would  doubtless  allow  what  was  Just  and  right ;  on  these 
terms  the  Quar''  Master  supplyed  the  Army  untill  the  beginning  of 


126  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

Nov''  altho:  not  without  some  Complaint  amongst  the  people;  Then 
the  Council  of  War  Mannifested  their  unwillingness  to  have  the 
Army  Supply'd  in  any  other  way,  than  giving  the  Common  prices 
to  the  Owners  for  them,  and  were  desirous  that  I  should  take  it  on 
myself  to  supply  the  Army  in  that  way,  and  run  the  risk  of  the 
approbation  of  the  Accounts,  which  I  declined  to  undertake,  without 
some  aid  and  Assistance  from  them,  as  it  appeared  to  me  that  it  was 
very  uncertain,  wheather  we  could  long  obtain  Necessary  Articles 
for  any  sum  of  Bills,  as  the  contempt  of  them  was  daily  increasing, 
and  also  I  apprehended  it  was  too  dangerous  a  Matter  for  me  to 
Risk  the  settlements  and  approbation  of  such  Exorbitant  accounts, 
as  I  must  have  to  settle,  if  I  supply'd  in  that  way ;  The  Council 
then  by  their  Resolve  of  the  last  of  October  Ordered  that  I  should 
be  requested  to  give  Orders  for  purchasing  such  Necessarj^  Articles 
as  the  Army  in  this  State  required,  at  the  most  reasonable  prices, 
at  which  they  could  be  procured,  and  if  their  should  be  any  deduction 
made  in  the  settlement  of  those  Accounts,  the  s'^  State  would  pay 
what  was  deducted ;  since  which  the  Quarter  Master  has  supplyed 
agreeable  to  the  direction  of  said  Resolve ;  The  Quarter  Master  has 
given  a  list  of  the  prices  of  a  few  of  the  principle  Articles  at  which 
they  have  been  procured  since  Oct"",  and  also  of  the  price  they  ware 
set  at  in  the  State  Bill  or  regulating  Act.  which  I  enclose.  Your 
Honors  from  This  Representation  will  please  to  direct  what  further 
Allowance  shall  be  given  for  the  Articles  rec^  for  the  Use  of  the 
Army,  on  the  Conditions  above  Mentioned  from  the  15*'^  of  Sep- 
tember to  the  last  of  Oct^;  the  prices  of  the  Articles  procured  for 
the  support  of  the  Army,  being  three  or  four  times  as  much  as  they 
were  untill  the  repeal  of  the  Regulating  Act,  it  now  takes  such 
enormous  sums  of  Cash  to  supply  a  little  Army,  by  reason  of  which 
and  other  disappointments,  we  are  now  reduced  to  Extreem  want 
of  Cash  in  this  Army. —  when  I  rec*^  the  Resolve  of  Congress  of  the 
18'^  July,  directing  me  to  apply  to  M""  Hancock  D.y.  Pay  Master 
for  Cash;  I  imedeately  made  Application  to  him  Accordingly,  but 
by  reason  of  one  Obstacle  or  another,  I  have  never  to  this  time  been 
able  to  obtain  from  M''  Hancock  for  the  Use  of  this  Army  but  about 
Twenty  Thousand  Dollars,  and  none  until  the  beginning  of  Nov., 
which  was  brought  by  M""  John  Adams  M''  Hancocks  Assistant,  M"" 
Adams  then  informed  me,  that  he  would  come  again  at  any  time 
that  I  should  appoint,  giving  him  a  few  days  Notice,  and  that  he 
expected  soon  a  supply,  of  Cash,  M""  Adams  also  desired  me  to  give 
Orders  to  the  several  Commanders  of  Reg'^  to  be  ready  with  their 


LETTER  OF  JOSEPH  SPENCER. 


127 


pay  Rolls  at  the  time  I  set  for  him  to  come,  and  on  the  16*'^  ol 
Nov.  I  wrote  to  M''  Adams  to  be  at  Providence  the  9"^  of  Dec'' 
for  the  purpose  of  paying  the  Troops  and  supplying  the  Army  with 
Cash,  I  also  directed  the  several  commanders  of  Reg'^  to  be  ready 
with  their  Pay  Abstracts,  properly  prepared  to  receive  their  pay  as 
the  pay  Master  would  be  here  by  that  time,  which  preparation  they 
Accordingly  made,  and  several  of  them  came  twenty  miles  for  the 
purpose  of  receiving  their  pay,  and  the  very  day  M'"  Adams  was 
expected  to  pay  the  Troops,  I  rec*^  to  my  very  great  and  distressing 
disappointment,  a  Letter  from  him,  dated  the  4'*^  Dec^  Informing 
that  he  had  no  Cash  but  what  was  needed  at  Boston,  a  Copy  of 
which  I  enclose,  since  which  I  have  Rec*^  nothing  further  from  the 
pay  Master  and  I  am  at  present  put  to  Extreem  difficulty  for  want 
of  Cash,  as  the  Treasury  of  this  State  from  whence  I  used  to  bor- 
row is  exhausted,  and  I  am  informed  their  is  no  Cash  to  be  had  in 
either  of  the  adjacent  States,  I  have  informed  M""  Hancock  that  in 
my  Oppinion  he  ought  to  let  us  have  a  part  of  the  Cash  he  receives, 
if  there  is  not  Enough  for  the  supply  of  the  Troops  at  each  Depart- 
ment; could  I  have  had  had  a  reasonable  proportion  of  the  Cash,  M"" 
Hancock  has  rec*^  it  would  have  given  considerable  satisfaction,  but 
to  be  totally  Neglected ;  unless  there  is  more  than  is  wanted  for 
the  Troops  in  and  about  Boston  Affords  us  Just  Matter  of  Com- 
plaint. —  I  Esteem  it  my  duty  as  a  Commander  to  give  it  as  my 
Opinion  to  your  Honors  for  the  safety  of  this  State  in  particular 
and  the  United  States  in  General,  it  is  Necessary  that  this  Army 
should  be  more  carefully  attended  to ;  there  has  been  for  a  Year 
past  a  very  Considerable  Army  of  the  Enemy  in  this  State,  the 
Summer  past,  and  untill  the  present  time  —  By  indisputable  Ac- 
counts, the  Enemy  have  been  3600  Strong,  Besides  the  Tory  Troops, 
and  Marines  belonging  to  the  Ships  in  the  Harbour,  with  which  they 
are  near  4,CXX);  there  is  now  (mostly  Arrived  within  a  few  Days) 
twenty  Ships  and  Sloops  of  War,  and  g  or  10  of  them  of  the  Line, 
the  Enemy  doubtless  design  to  keep  Possession  of  the  Island  of 
Rhode  Island  while  the  Contest  Continues;  they  can  make  a  very 
Considerable  Army,  with  their  Land  and  sea  force,  and  it  will  be 
a  Wonder  if  they  should  continue  very  Long  without  laying  some 
part  of  this  Country  Waste,  it  will  not  give  us  Security  that  they 
will  not  for  the  future  destroy  any  part  of  the  Country,  because  they 
have  done  so  little  Mischief  the  Year  past,  they  have  doubtless 
several  times  heretofore  had  it  in  Contemplation  to  make  a  descent 
on  the  Main,  but  have  never  put  it  in  Execution,  in  any  considerable 


128  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

degree,  once  they  landed  in  North  Kingston  with  a  party  of  2  or  300 
Men,  but  were  drove  off,  without  doing  much  damage,  and  we  have 
full  Evidence  that  a  Considerable  Number  Embarked  with  a  design 
to  make  a  landing  some  where,  but  the  place  uncertain ;  on  the  Night 
of  the  16*''  of  Ocf  but  hearing  by  a  Deserter  from  us  that  Night, 
that  our  Army  designed  a  descent  on  the  Island  the  same  Night, 
they  disembarked,  the  Evidence  of  this  we  had  not  only  from  Desert- 
ers and  Prisoners,  but  found  a  Return  of  390  of  the  43*^  Reg*^  that 
Embarked  that  Night  on  board  the  Ships,  amongst  the  papers  taken 
in  the  Syren  Frigate,  that  run  on  shore  at  Point  Judith.  On  the 
whole,  I  think  prudence  requires  that  an  Army  should  constantly  be 
kept  up  here  for  defence,  of  at  least  4,000  Men,  and  this  I  under- 
stand has  been  the  Opinion  of  a  Committee  of  the  New  England 
States,  that  lately  took  the  Matter  in  Consideration  —  the  Army 
which  has  been  here  since  may,  in  General  Including  Officers,  and 
also  the  sick,  on  an  Everage  (without  regard  to  those  Call'd  in  Ocf 
for  the  designed  Expedition),  amounts  to  about  2400  Men,  as  will 
appear  by  the  Monthly  returns  sent  to  the  Hon'ble  Board  of  War 
by  this  Express  —  There  is  in  the  Army  here  at  present  about 
22,00  Men  8,00  of  them  from  the  state  of  Massachusetts  —  and  from 
New  Hampshire  260  —  the  times  of  the  Massachusetts  and  &  N 
Hampshires  are  out  the  first  of  Jan^.  —  the  rest  of  this  Army  are 
of  this  State  —  Connectticut  have  sent  none  here  (except  those  for 
the  design  of  making  an  attempt  on  Rhode  Island)  since  last  May: 
the  calls  on  them  from  the  Westward  &  Northward  and  for  guards 
on  their  own  shores  have  been  so  great —  The  state  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts as  I  have  been  informed  Design  to  send  15,00  men,  but  I 
fear  they  will  not  be  here  timely,  to  replace  those  whose  times  are 
soon  out  —  This  State  have  Ordered  in  one  quarter  part  of  their 
Militia:  but  it  is  Esteem'd  and  indeed  is  Excessively  hard  upon 
them  —  They  have  paid  their  own  Troops,  Except  about  500  from 
the  beginning  — 

I  beg  to  observe  that  from  the  above  State  of  Facts,  it  Appears 
to  me  very  Necessary  for  the  support  and  Encouragement,  of  A 
Necessary  Army  for  Defence  to  be  kept  up  in  this  State  —  that  a 
pay  Master  should  be  appointed  to  reside  Constantly  here:  there 
would  be  a  full  Employ  for  one;  and  that  he  should  be  supply'd  by 
your  Honors  Orders  with  sufficient  Quantities  of  Cash,  for  the  sup- 
port and  pay  of  the  Army  —  as  it  is  of  greater  importance  to  have 
this  Army  Encouraged  and  supplyed,  than  one,  more  remote  from  the 
Enemy — Major   Spencer  who  has  served   with   me  some   time   as 


LETTER  OF  JOSEPH  SPENCER.  129 

Aid-De-Camp  will  Convey  this  —  to  whom  I  beg  leave  to  refer 
your  Honors  for  more  perfect  Intelligence  with  relation  to  Matters 
at  this  Post.  —  he  has  an  extract  of  the  doings  of  the  Court  of 
Enquiry  mentioned  in  my  last,  relative  to  the  failure  of  the  expe- 
dition formed  Against  the  Island  of  Rhode  Island,  by  which  I  think 
it  appears  that  it  did  not  fail  by  reason  of  any  Misconduct  or  want 
of  zeal  in  me.  — 

Permit  me  after  Making  the  above  Representation  to  Acknowl- 
edge that  the  Difficulties  attending  the  Command  of  this  department, 
Requires  a  Commander  of  greater  Abilities,  and  in  the  Bloom  and 
Vigour  of  life:  and  that  I  Earnestly  entreat  your  Honors  that  such 
a  person  may  be  Ordered  to  Relieve  me,  and  that  I  may  have  the 
Opportunity  to  settle  my  Accounts  Relative  to  my  Command :  and 
have  your  Honors  leave  to  resign  my  Office.  —  Your  Honors  will 
please  to  inform  wheather  I  am  intitled  to  the  Allowance  of  a  Sep- 
arate Command  or  not. 

I  have  the  Honor  to  be  with  all  due 

Respect 

Your  Honors  Most 

Obed'  &  M°  hble  serv. 

Jo^  Spencer. 
Hon'ble  Congress 

Endorsed : 

Letter  from  Gen  Spencer 

20  Ded"  1777  —  read  Jan^  7.  1778 

referred  to  the  board  of  war 

The  remains  and  gravestones  of  Major-General  Joseph 
Spencer  and  his  wife,  Hannah  (Brown)  Southmayd  Spencer, 
were  removed  from  the  cemetery  at  Willington,  near  the 
place  where  he  was  born  to  the  Nathan  Hale  Park,  and 
placed  beside  this  monument. 


I30  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 


PROPERTY 

OF  THE 

SOCIETY 

SONS   OF   THE   REVOLUTION 

IN  THE 

STATE  OF  CONNECTICUT. 


Nathan  Hale  Schoolhouse,  East  Haddam,  Conn.  Pre- 
sented to  the  Society  by  the  New  York  Society  Sons  of  the 
Revolution,  June  6,  1900. 

Nathan  Hale  Park,  East  Haddam,  Conn.  Eight  acres 
of  land.  Presented  to  the  Society  by  Hon.  Morgan  G. 
Bulkeley,  Hartford,  Conn.,  May  29,   1900. 

Silk  Flag  of  the  Society's  Colors.  Presented  to  the 
Society  by  Hon.  James  W.  Cheney,  South  Manchester,  June 
6,  1900. 

Photograph  of  Original  Nathan  Hale  Commission. 
Presented  by  Mrs.  H.  N.  Griffith  in  behalf  of  Prof.  H.  P. 
Johnston,  New  York,  June  17,  1902. 

Loving  Cup  of  Solid  Silver.  Presented  by  Rev.  H.  N. 
Wayne  in  behalf  of  the  New  York  Society,  May  25,  1901. 

Bronze  Statuette  of  Nathan  Hale.  Presented  by  the 
New  York  Society,  June  17,  1903. 


•  I  \<\  lA  111'  \\iii\N  ii\ii.  r\i<k    I  \-i  ii\hi.\\i 


PUBLICATIONS  BY  THE  SOCIETY 


131 


PUBLICATIONS  BY  THE  SOCIETY. 

1894  Constitution  and  By-laws  of  the  Society  of  the  Sons 
of  the  Revolution,  in  the  State  of  Connecticut. 
Pubhcation  Committee,  George  B.  Sanford, 
Thomas  B.  Fairchild,  Howard  N.  Wakeman. 
Westport  PubHshing  Company,  Printers,  West- 
port,  Conn.,  1894.      27  pages. 

1896  Register  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  in  the  State 
of  Connecticut.  Cyrus  Sherwood  Bradley,  Pub- 
lication Committee.  Press  of  Tuttle,  More- 
house &  Taylor,  New  Haven.  Illustrated, 
Cloth  Bound.      65  pages. 

1896  A  report  read  at  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Connect- 

icut Society  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  December 
8,  1896,  on  "  Desecration  of  the  American  Flag," 
by  the  Committee,  Henry  Baldwin,  A.  Floyd 
Delafield,  Alexander  Hamilton.  Press,  New 
Britain  Record  Print.      16  pages. 

1897  Historical  Landmarks  of  Connecticut,  by  The  United 

Committees  on  Historical  Landmarks  of  Con- 
necticut. Henr)^  Baldwin,  Dr.  George  J. 
Holmes,  Timothy  Jones.  Press  of  Tuttle,  More- 
house &  Taylor,  New  Haven.     39  pages, 

1898  Register  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  in  the  State 

of  Connecticut,  1898.  Publication  Committee, 
Wm.  F.  Waterbury,  Timothy  Jones,  Col.  Henry 
W.  Wessells,  Rev.  Henry  N.  Wayne.  Press  of 
Tuttle,  Morehouse  &  Taylor,  New  Haven.  122 
pages. 

1903  The  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  in  Con- 

necticut. Decennial  Report.  Publication  Com- 
mittee, Walter  L.  Wakefield,  Hanford  L.  Curtis, 
Charles  B.  Whittelsey.  Press  of  The  Case, 
Lockwood  &  Brainard  Co.,  Hartford.     85  pages. 

1904  Historical  Sketch  of  Major-General  Joseph  Spencer, 

Compiled  by  Charles  B.  Whittelsey,  Historian. 
1 1  pages. 


IN   MEMORIAM 


IN   MEMORIAM.  135 


3(n  m^mnriam* 


Brigadier-General  Dwight  Morris,  Bridgeport,  Conn. ;  a 
Founder  of  the  Connecticut  Society;  died  September  26, 
1894;  ancestor,  Brevet.-Major  James  Morris. 

I     Nathan  Gillette  Pond,  Stratford,  Conn. ;  a  Founder  of  the 

Connecticut  Society;  died  July  2g,  1894;  ancestor  Charles 

Pond. 
Thomas  Freeman  Fairchild,  Stratford,  Conn. ;  a  Founder 

of    the    Connecticut    Society;    died     Fcbruarj'    7,     1897; 

ancestor,  Thomas  Elwood. 
William    Freeman    French,    M.D.,    Noroton,    Conn.;    a 

Founder   of   the   Connecticut    Society:    died   January   27, 

1898;  ancestor,  Samuel  Stowe. 
II     Timothy    Jones,    Danbury,    Conn.;    died    July    21,    1903; 

ancestor,  Lieutenant  John  Jones. 
13     Colonel  Heusted  W.  R.  Hoyt,  Greenwich,  Conn;  died  April 

8,   1894;  ancestor.  Sergeant  Nathaniel  Osborne. 
32     Colonel  Frederick  Curtis  Johnson,  Ansonia,  Conn, ;  died 

December  24,   1896;  ancestor,  John  Holbrook. 
44     Thomas   Russell   Hoyt,    Danbury,    Conn.;   died   June   27, 

1896;  ancestor,  Eliphalet  Smith. 
52     Samuel  J.  Barlow,  Waterbury,  Conn.;  died  November  28, 

1899;  ancestor,  Ensign  Aaron  Barlow. 
57     General  William  Henry  Bulkeley,  Hartford,  Conn.;  died 

November   7,    1902;   ancestors,  William  Avery  Morgan, 

Eliphalet  Bulkeley. 
63     Julius  Deming,  Litchfield,  Conn.;  died  December  30,  1902; 

ancestor,  Julius  Deming. 
73     James    Edmond    Miller,    Danbury,    Conn.;    died    June   29, 

1902;  ancestor.  Lieutenant  John  Jones. 
85     James  Campbell,  M.D.,  Hartford,  Conn.;  died  October  17, 

1899;  ancestor,  James  Campbell. 


136  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

96     Frank  Treman  Wyckoff,  Stamford,  Conn. ;  died  February 

19)  1903;  ancestor,  Abner  Treman. 
50     Geo.  F.  Lincoln^  Hartford,  Conn.;  died  July  23,   1903,  at 

Brussels,  Belgium;  ancestor,  Stephen  Lincoln. 

Jesup  Wakeman,  Southport,  Conn. ;  a  Founder  of  the  Con- 
necticut Society;  died  April  3,  1904,  in  New  York  City; 
ancestor,  Gershom  Bulkley. 

Augustus  Floyd  Delafield,  Noroton,  Conn. ;  a  Founder  of 
the  Connecticut  Society;  died  July  18,  1904,  in  Noroton, 
Conn. ;  ancestors.  Colonel  William  Floyd,  Joseph  Hallett. 
12  Leigh  Richmond  Hoyt,  Lyons  Plains,  Conn.;  a  Founder  of 
the  Connecticut  Society;  died  July  25,  1903,  Lyons  Plains, 
Conn. ;  ancestor,  Sergeant  Nathaniel  Osborne. 
46  Henry  Baldwin^  New  Haven,  Conn.;  died  January  2,  1905, 
New  Haven,  Conn. ;  ancestor,  Roger  Sherman. 

Rear  Admiral  Louis  Joseph  Allen,  U.  S.  Navy ;  a  Founder 
of  the  Connecticut  Society;  died  September,  1905; 
ancestor,  Ensign  Jacob  Strembeck. 

3  John  Smith  Jones,  Westport,  Conn. ;  a  Founder  of  the  Con- 
necticut Society;  died  November  13,  1906;  ancestor.  Lieu- 
tenant John  Jones. 
Lieutenant-Colonel  George  Bliss  Sanford,  U.  S.  A.,  Litch- 
field, Conn.;  a  Founder  of  the  Connecticut  Society;  died 
July  13,  1908;  ancestors,  Sergeant  Elihu  Sanford,  Ensign 
Elihu  Lyman. 

Colonel  Henry  Walton  Wessells,  Litchfield,  Conn.;  a 
Founder  and  Treasurer  of  the  Connecticut  Society;  died 
September  26,  1909,  Litchfield,  Conn.;  ancestor,  Elijah 
Holcombe. 

2  Howard  Eugene  Gates,  M.D.  ;  a  Founder  of  the  Connecti- 
cut Society;  died  November  9,  1908,  in  Colorado  Springs, 
Col. ;  ancestors.  Major  John  Wait  Garrett,  John  Garrett. 

6  Simon  Couch  Sherwood,  Southport,  Conn. ;  died  March, 
1906,  in  Southport,  Conn.;  ancestors,  Daniel  Sherwood, 
Corporal  Simon  Couch,  Ensign  Ebenezer  Jesup,  Joseph 
Hyde. 

23  Frederick  D.  Street,  Darien,  Conn. ;  died  September  26, 
191 1 ;  ancestors.  Captain  Joseph  Mather,  Reverend  Moses 
Mather. 


IN  MEMORIAM.  137 

29  James  Barton  Bowen,  Putnam,  Conn.;  died  March  9,  1907; 
ancestor,  Abiel  Chaffee. 

38  Frank  Howard  Hotchkiss^  Thomaston,  Conn. ;  died  Sep- 
tember 6,  igo8;  ancestor,  Henry  Baldwin, 

54  George  William  Dean^  Stamford,  Conn. ;  died  January  28, 

1908;  ancestor,  Ephraim  Dean. 

55  George  James   Holmes,   M.D.,   New   Britain,   Conn.;  died 

1907;  ancestor,  Sergeant  Jabez  Holmes. 
75     Rear  Admiral  Charles  Stanhope  Cotton,  U.  S.  N.  ;  died 

February,  1909;  ancestor.  Sergeant  Rowland  Cotton. 
77     Reverend    Louis   French,   Noroton,   Conn. ;   died   September 

29,  1912;  ancestor,  Lieutenant  William  Glenny. 
112     Edwin  Augustus  Knapp,  Greenwich,  Conn.;  died  April  17, 

1907 ;  ancestors,  Major  Samuel  Lyon,  Captain  John  Crane, 

Ensign  Benjamin  Brush,  Moses  Fowler. 
147     William  Francis  Joseph  Boardman,  Hartford,  Conn.;  died 

November   23,    1912;    ancestors,    Elizur   Goodrich,    John 

Francis. 
169     Julius  Deming  Perkins,  Jr.,  Litchfield,  Conn.;  died  Feb- 
ruary 5,  1909;  ancestor.  Colonel  Henry  Champion. 

92     Ransom,   Ney  Fitzgerald,   Hartford,  Conn. ;  died   Septem- 
ber 3,  1905,  in  Quebec;  ancestor,  Alexander  Keeney,  Jr. 
86     Colonel    William    Henry    Tubbs,    Hartford,    Conn.;    died 

September  15,   1908;  ancestor,  Daniel  Tubbs. 
192     Ralph    Arthur    Blydenburg,    Middletown,    Conn.;    died 
October   10,   1913"  ancestor,  Samuel  Palmes,  private. 


Officers  and  Constitution 


THE   GENERAL  SOCIETY 


SONS   OF  THE  REVOLUTION 

191 1-1914 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  GENERAL  SOCIETY. 


141 


191 1 

OFFICERS  OF  THE  GENERAL  SOCIETY. 

General  President. 
Hon.  EDMUND  WETMORE,  No.  34  Pine  St.,  New  York  City. 

General  Vice-President. 

JAMES  MORTIMER  MONTGOMERY,  No.  102  Front  Street, 

New  York  City. 

Second  General  Vice-President. 

Hon.  JOHN  WINGATE  WEEKS,  No.  60  Congress  Street, 

Boston,  Mass. 

General  Secretary. 
Prof.  WILLIAM  LIBBEY,  Princeton,  N.  J. 

Assistant  General  Secretary. 
W.  HALL  HARRIS,  Jr.,  No.  216  St.  Paul  St.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

General  Treasurer. 

RICHARD  McCALL  CADWALADER.  No.  133  S.  12th  Street, 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Assistant  General  Treasurer. 
*HENRY  CADLE,  Bethany,  Mo. 

General  Chaplain. 
Rev.  RANDOLPH  HARRISON  McKIM,  D.  D.,  Washington, 

D.  C. 

General  Registrar. 
Hon.  GEORGE  ELTWEED  POMEROY,  Toledo,  Ohio. 

General  Historian. 
MARSHALL  DeLANCEY  HAYWOOD,  Raleigh,  N.  C. 


'Deceased  May  28,  1913. 


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SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 


THE  CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  GENERAL  SOCI- 
ETY OF  THE  SONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

191 1. 

Done  at  the  City  of  Philadelphia,  on  the  I2th  day  of 
February,  i8go,  and  of  the  Independence  of  the  United 
States  the  one  hundred  and  fourteenth. 

Adopted  in  the  City  of  New  York,  March  8th,  iSgo. 
Section   III  amended  April  23rd,  1892. 
Section  VIII  amended  April  21st,  1896. 
Section  VII  amended  April  19th,  1905. 

I. 

It  being  evident,  from  a  steady  decline  of  a  proper  cele- 
bration of  the  National  holidays  of  the  United  States  of 
America,  that  popular  concern  in  the  events  and  men  of  the 
War  of  the  Revolution  is  gradually  declining,  and  that  such 
lack  of  interest  is  attributable,  not  so  much  to  the  lapse  of 
time  and  the  rapidly  increasing  flood  of  immigration  from 
foreign  countries,  as  to  the  neglect,  on  the  part  of  descend- 
ants of  Revolutionary  heroes,  to  perform  their  duty  in 
keeping  before  the  public  mind  the  memory^  of  the  services 
of  their  ancestors  and  of  the  times  in  vs^hich  they  lived; 
therefore,  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  has 
been  instituted  to  perpetuate  the  memory  of  the  men  who, 
in  the  military,  naval  and  civil  service  of  the  Colonies  and  of 
the  Continental  Congress  by  their  acts  or  counsel,  achieved 
the  Independence  of  the  country,  and  to  further  the  proper 
celebration  of  the  anniversaries  of  the  birthday  of  Wash- 
ington, and  of  prominent  events  connected  with  the  War  of 
the  Revolution;  to  collect  and  secure  for  preservation  the 
rolls,  records,  and  other  documents  relating  to  that  period; 
to   inspire   the   members   of  the   Society   with    the   patriotic 


CONSTITUTION   OF   THE  GENERAL  SOCIETY. 


143 


spirit  of  their  forefathers;  and  to  promote  the   feeling  of 
friendship  among  them. 

II. 

The  General  Society  shall  be  divided  into  State  Societies, 
which  shall  meet  annually  on  the  day  appointed  therefor  in 
their  respective  by-laws,  and  oftener  if  found  expedient;  and 
at  such  annual  meeting  the  reasons  for  the  institution  of  the 
Society  shall  be  considered,  and  the  best  measures  for  carry- 
ing them  into  effect  adopted. 

III. 

The  State  Societies,  at  every  annual  meeting,  shall 
choose  by  a  majority  of  the  votes  present,  a  President,  a 
Vice-President,  a  Secretary,  a  Registrar,  a  Treasurer,  a 
Chaplain,  and  such  other  officers  as  may  by  them  respectively 
be  deemed  necessary  together  with  a  board  of  managers  con- 
sisting of  these  officers  and  of  nine  other  members,  as  may 
be  provided  by  their  respective  Constitutions  and  By-laws. 

IV. 

Each  State  Society  shall  cause  to  be  transmitted  annually 
or  oftener,  to  the  other  State  Societies,  a  circular  letter  call- 
ing attention  to  whatever  may  be  thought  worthy  of  obser- 
vation respecting  the  welfare  of  the  Society  or  of  the  general 
Union  of  the  States,  and  giving  information  of  the  officers 
chosen  for  the  year;  and  copies  of  these  letters  shall  also 
be  transmitted  to  the  General  Secretary,  to  be  preserved 
among  the  records  of  the  General  Society. 

V. 

The  State  Societies  shall  regulate  all  matters  respecting 
their  own  affairs,  consistent  with  the  general  good  of  the 
Society;  judge  of  the  qualification  of  their  members,  or  of 
those  proposed  for  membership,  subject,  however,  to  the 
provisions  of  this  Constitution;  and  expel  any  member  who, 
by  conduct  unbecoming  a  gentleman  or  a  man  of  honor,  or 
by  an  opposition  to  the  interests  of  the  community  in  gen- 


144  ^OiV5"  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

eral   or   of   the   Society   in   particular,    may   render   himself 
unworthy  to  continue  in  membership, 

VI. 

In  order  to  form  funds  that  may  be  respectable,  each 
member  shall  contribute,  upon  his  admission  to  the  Society 
and  annually  thereafter,  such  sums  as  the  by-laws  of  the 
respective  State  Societies  may  require;  but  any  of  such  State 
Societies  may  provide  for  the  endowment  of  memberships 
by  the  payment  of  proper  sums  in  capitalization,  which  sums 
shall  be  properly  invested  as  a  permanent  fund,  the  income 
only  of  which  shall  be  expended. 

VII. 

The  regular  meeting  of  the  General  Society  shall  be  held 
every  three  years,  and  special  meetings  may  be  held  upon 
the  order  of  the  General  President  or  upon  the  request  of 
two  of  the  State  Societies,  and  such  meetings  shall  consist 
of  two  Delegates  from  each  State  Society  and  one  additional 
Delegate  for  every  one  hundred  (lOo)  members  or  major 
fraction  thereof;  and  on  all  questions  arising  at  meetings  of 
the  General  Society  each  Delegate  there  present  shall  be 
entitled  to  one  vote,  and  no  votes  shall  be  taken  by  States, 
and  the  necessary  expenses  of  such  meeting  shall  be  borne 
by  the  State  Societies. 

VIII. 

At  the  regular  meeting,  a  General  President,  General 
Vice-President,  General  Second  Vice-President,  General 
Secretary,  Assistant  General  Secretary,  General  Treasurer, 
Assistant  General  Treasurer,  General  Registrar,  General 
Historian  and  General  Chaplain  shall  be  chosen  by  a  major- 
ity of  the  votes  present,  to  serve  until  the  next  regular  Gen- 
eral meeting,  or  until  their  successors  are  duly  chosen. 

IX. 

At  each  general  meeting  the  circular  letters  which  have 
been  transmitted  by  the  several  State  Societies  shall  be  con- 


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sidered,  and  all  measures  taken  which  shall  conduce  to  the 
general  welfare  of  the  Society. 

X. 

The  General  Society  shall  have  power  at  any  meeting 
to  admit  State  Societies  thereto,  and  to  entertain  and  deter- 
mine all  questions  affecting  the  qualifications  for  member- 
ship in  or  the  welfare  of  any  State  Society  as  may,  by  proper 
memorial,  be  presented  by  such  State  Society  for  considera- 
tion. 

XL 

Any  male  person  above  the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  of 
good  character,  and  a  descendant  of  one  who,  as  a  military, 
naval,  or  marine  officer,  soldier,  sailor,  or  marine,  in  actual 
service,  under  the  authority  of  any  of  the  thirteen  Colonies 
or  States  or  of  the  Continental  Congress,  and  remaining 
always  loyal  to  such  authority,  or  a  descendant  of  one  who 
signed  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  or  of  one  who,  as 
a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress  or  of  the  Congress 
of  any  of  the  Colonies  or  States,  or  as  an  official  appointed 
by  or  under  the  authority  of  any  such  legislative  bodies, 
actually  assisted  in  the  establishment  of  American  Independ- 
ence by  services  rendered  during  the  War  of  the  Revolution, 
becoming  thereby  liable  to  conviction  of  treason  against  the 
Government  of  Great  Britain,  but  remaining  always  loyal  to 
the  authority  of  the  Colonies  or  States,  shall  be  eligible  to 
membership  in  the  Society. 

XII. 

The  Secretary  of  each  State  Society  shall  transmit  to  the 
General  Secretary  a  list  of  the  members  thereof,  together 
with  the  names  and  official  designations  of  those  from  whom 
such  members  derive  claim  to  membership,  and  thereafter 
upon  the  admission  of  members  in  each  State  Society,  the 
Secretary  thereof  shall  transmit  to  the  General  Secretary 
information  respecting  such  members  similar  to  that  herein 
required, 

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146  ^ONS  OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 

XIII. 

The  Society  shall  have  an  Insignia,  which  shall  be  a  badge 
suspended  from  a  ribbon  by  a  ring  of  gold;  the  badge  to  be 
elliptical  in  form,  with  escalloped  edges,  one  and  one-quarter 
inches  in  length,  and  one  and  one-eighth  inches  in  width;  the 
whole  surmounted  by  a  gold  eagle,  with  wings  displayed, 
inverted;  on  the  obverse  side  a  medallion  of  gold  in  the 
center,  elliptical  in  form,  bearing  on  its  face  the  figure  of  a 
soldier  in  Continental  uniform,  with  musket  slung;  beneath, 
the  figures  1775  ;  the  medallion  surrounded  by  thirteen  raised 
gold  stars  of  five  points  each  upon  a  border  of  dark  blue 
enamel.  On  the  reverse  side,  in  the  center,  a  medallion  cor- 
responding in  form  to  that  on  the  obverse,  and  also  in  gold, 
bearing  on  its  face  the  Houdon  portrait  of  Washington  in 
bas-relief,  encircled  by  the  legend,  "  Sons  of  the  Revo- 
lution ";  beneath,  the  figures  1883;  and  upon  the  reverse  of 
the  eagle  the  number  of  the  badge  to  be  engraved;  the 
medallion  to  be  surrounded  by  a  plain  gold  border,  conform- 
ing in  dimensions  to  the  obverse;  the  ribbon  shall  be  dark 
blue,  ribbed  and  watered,  edged  with  buff,  one  and  one- 
quarter  inches  wide,  and  one  and  one-half  inches  in  displayed 
length. 

XIV. 

The  insignia  of  the  Society  shall  be  worn  by  the  members 
on  all  occasions  when  they  assemble  as  such  for  any  stated 
purpose  or  celebration,  and  may  be  worn  on  any  occasion  of 
ceremony;  it  shall  be  carried  conspicuously  on  the  left  breast, 
but  members  who  are  or  have  been  officers  of  the  Society 
may  wear  the  insignia  suspended  from  the  ribbon  around  the 
neck. 

XV. 

The  custodian  of  the  insignia  shall  be  the  General 
Secretary,  who  shall  issue  them  to  members  of  the  Society 
under  such  proper  rules  as  may  be  formulated  by  the  Gen- 
eral Society,  and  he  shall  keep  a  register  of  such  issues 
wherein  each  insignia  issued  may  be  identified  by  the  number 
thereof. 


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XVI. 

The  seal  of  the  Society  shall  be  one  and  seven-eighth 
inches  in  diameter,  and  shall  consist  of  the  figure  of  a  Minute- 
man  in  Continental  uniform,  standing  on  a  ladder  leading 
to  a  belfry;  in  his  left  hand  he  holds  a  musket  and  an  olive 
branch,  whilst  his  right  grasps  a  bell-rope;  above,  the 
cracked  Liberty  Bell ;  issuing  therefrom  a  ribbon  bearing  the 
motto  of  the  Society,  Exegi  monitmentum  acre  perennius; 
across  the  top  of  the  ladder,  on  a  ribbon,  the  figures  1776; 
and  on  the  left  of  the  Minute-man,  and  also  on  a  ribbon,  the 
figures  1883,  the  year  of  the  formation  of  the  Society;  the 
whole  encircled  by  a  band  three-eighths  of  one  inch  wide; 
thereon  at  the  top  thirteen  stars  of  five  points  each;  at  the 
bottom  the  name  of  the  General  Society,  or  of  the  State 
Society  to  which  the  seal  belongs. 


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